Mr. Speaker, lost in the fury of the $100 million ad scandal is a much bigger scandal: the $45 billion Liberal EI overcharge.
While the Prime Minister claims to be ignorant of the first, he is in fact the architect of the second larger scandal. As finance minister, he deliberately kept the rates artificially high and changed EI into his own personal piggy bank
Because EI contributions stop on income above $39,000 a year, this practice is most punitive to low income Canadians. While the Prime Minister uses offshore tax havens, he is taking $6,000 extra unnecessarily from working Canadian households in EI premiums. Employers and employees are getting fleeced and Liberals continue to play a shell game.
The Conservative Party believes that working Canadians deserve more money in their pockets and fewer Liberal hands.