Mr. Speaker, in fact the government owes it, and it owes workers hundreds of dollars.
The finance minister once said that payroll taxes like EI are a cancer on Canadian jobs.
The chief actuary, whose judgment is not tainted by politics, still says that EI premiums are way too high. Each business is paying hundreds of dollars more than it should per worker.
Again I would like to ask the minister, how can he justify jingling that money out of every Canadian worker's pocket?