Mr. Speaker, I guess that is cold comfort for people who thought it was going to be set aside for a rainy day.
As the minister knows, the EI fund is imaginary like leprechauns and unicorns, like the Bre-X gold fields and like the Prime Minister's homeless friend.
When will the finance minister break the bad news to all Canadians? When will he tell them the job safety net that was supposed to be set aside is spent and gone? What does he have to show for the $15 billion that Canadians put in there other than an IOU?