I would like the member to listen to what I am saying and take this a little more seriously.
Could he not ask his party to devote one half of 1% of the $20 billion surplus in the fund to maintain a program that has been around for two years?
In conclusion, I would remind the member that the Auditor General of Canada said that, if the federal government used the money for anything other than unemployment, administration costs and training expenses, it would be illegal. Right now, the federal government is receiving interest on the EI fund and it would illegal for it to use it elsewhere.