Mr. Speaker, yesterday the finance minister said that he does not want to return the employment insurance over-collection to workers and job creators because he needs the money to save us all from a recession. He wants to spend it. It may be news to the minister but British Columbia is already in a recession and the over-collection that he sucked out of the B.C. economy did not help.
The minister knows full well that payroll taxes kill jobs. Why does the minister not do the right thing for B.C. and all Canadians and just cut the premiums now?