Mr. Speaker, I welcome the member's conversion to the opinions expressed by the business community and the Chamber of Commerce.
I am sure that the other communities he represents will be delighted to hear of this conversion on the road to Damascus. I would suggest however that the member might want to listen to what the Minister of Human Resources Development and I have said. It is crucial once the unemployment insurance rates go down that they stay down. The business community and workers should not be subject to some kind of a yo-yo effect where every time there is a downturn in the economy we are forced counterproductively to raise those rates.
What we have said is that the rates are certainly going to come down. But when they come down under this government they are going to stay down.