It is clear that over the life of the business cycle it is important to make sure there is a reserve in the UI fund so that we will not run into a position as the previous government did, of which the Leader of the Opposition was a member, where all of a sudden it dropped premium rates and then had to jack them way up. As a result, it made the recession even worse.
I remind the hon. member that she was a member of a committee of the House of Commons that looked at the whole UI question and recommended: "The UI account be permitted to accumulate a surplus to accommodate changes in premium rates over the business cycle". That was a recommendation of a committee in which the hon. member was a full participant.