Mr. Speaker, that was a nice answer by my hon. colleague, but to the wrong question. He did not answer the question. I do not understand his answer, but that is indeed his right.
In the light of these surpluses of between $6 billion and $7 billion a year, which will reach $25 billion by the year 2000, is it not time my hon. colleague realized that the government can afford to substantially reduce premiums and to improve benefits to the unemployed in order to preserve the very nature of the plan instead of using it as a tax on jobs?