Mr. Speaker, if the finance minister would take off his blinders when he reads Reform material he would get it right. He did not get it right there.
The EI surplus is not his, but he just does not get that. What he wants to do is give Canadians a drop of blood in one arm and still rip off a pint of blood from the other arm.
Why will the finance minister not listen to his chief actuary? He will not listen to us, why does he not listen to the chief actuary, drop EI premiums to $2.05 and give every Canadian worker a $350 a year tax break? Why will he not do that? What is the problem?