Mr. Speaker, the Liberals keep announcing the same thing year after year. This was first announced three years ago.
Liberals have collected $45 billion more in EI taxes than they have given out to workers. The fact that they have not mentioned this in the budget is their way of saying, “Too bad. We have spent the surplus. We are going to keep EI taxes too high so that we can build up a new surplus and everyone is just going to have to trust us not to spend it again”. That is basically what they are saying.
Will the finance minister confirm that no EI surplus actually exists and that it was all a scam created by the former finance minister?