Mr. Speaker, again the hon. member should look at what we did. When we came to office we reduced employment insurance contributions. We prevented them from rising to $3.30 from $3.07, before reducing them to $3.00 and later to $2.90. The Minister of Human Resources Development and myself have announced that, in November, we will lower contributions to $2.80. We are in the process of doing so. Therefore, we reduced employment insurance contributions by $4 billion over a two-year period.
In the House of Commons on October 20th, 1997. See this statement in context.