Madam Chair, I believe there is a difficulty of understanding.
There is no reason we could not set up a fund within the UI fund to look after a future problem. It is not being used for current daily operations of government. If the member looks at the budget papers he will find there is an operating surplus.
All of the revenues of the government must go into the calculation of the total revenues, including premiums from unemployment. That is the auditor general's rule as to how government accounts are handled. All of the expenditures, including the expenditures for unemployment insurance payments, go on the payment side. The net difference is the operating numbers. For the last few years there has been an operating surplus.
As I said, if the hon. member does not like that system or does not understand it, I cannot go beyond that. All I can tell him is we do have an unemployment insurance fund looking after the unemployed. If a future recession happens we will have the ability to handle that recession without raising premiums in the unemployment insurance fund to the severe detriment of workers and business when a recession hits.