Mr. Speaker, the Employment Insurance Act makes it absolutely clear that the employment insurance fund is not a slush fund for the use of this government or any provincial government in the land. The employment insurance fund is there to help Canadians get back to work. It is there to finance active measures such as wage subsidies, earning supplements, self-employment assistance, job creation partnerships and skills loans and grants.
Our government will be working with the Government of Prince Edward Island. Right now we are working on a transitional job fund of about $10 million. However it is not a solution to go to the employment insurance account for such a thing.