Mr. Speaker, given the size of current surpluses and the maintenance of high premiums, workers will never be able to benefit from this surplus, which will only be used to reduce the deficit.
Since UI premiums and benefits are part of the government's revenue and expenditures, does the minister recognize that his so-called recession reserve is nothing but an accounting fiction and that this UI fund surplus will be used strictly to reduce the federal
deficit, as specified on page 11 of the government's own annual financial report?