Madam Speaker, I thank my friend across the way for the question.
Of course there is a line somewhere in the budget that says employment insurance account, but it is empty. My friend knows it. It is the actual account itself, the money in it, that is the myth. There is no money there.
My friend suggested there are various types of programs. I think he called them partnerships and strategies. I think sometimes the strategies are tragedies because we know very well that after 30 years of all types of strategies and partnerships and all kinds of programs unemployment is chronic in many parts of the country. We know in Atlantic Canada we have unemployment in some cases of 20%.
I simply ask in return how well have these worked, all these strategies and partnerships that have left us with 20% unemployment.