Mr. Speaker, we put the question to the Minister of Finance and he says that the unemployment insurance surplus is part of the consolidated fund; the next day he says it is not. We do not know which way is up.
I will put the question to him another way. We are giving him his fourth and fifth chances today. Since his government has just grabbed the surplus in the unemployment insurance fund and dramatically limited access to it, will the Minister of Finance acknowledge that he is preparing to do the same thing to the old age pensions, that is, in addition to cutting them, he will make benefits harder to obtain?