Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General reminds us that recording revenue and expenditures of the UI account with those of the federal government distorts the government's budget results, since Ottawa has not contributed to the UI account since 1990. The account is financed entirely by workers and employers.
Does the Minister of Finance admit that, without the net surplus of $2.7 billion in the UI account, his deficit for the current year would not be $39.7 billion, as he claims, but about $42 billion?