Mr. Speaker, the EI fund is wholly funded by workers and employers. The government has a legal and a moral obligation to give the surplus back to those workers in the form of lower premiums.
The minister has said that breaking the law and raiding the EI fund is simply a matter of choice, a matter of political priorities.
Will the minister do the right thing today and simply lower EI premiums, or will he pillage the fund like Genghis Khan the finance minister and his marauding hordes of Liberal backbenchers?