Mr. Speaker, the minister does not have the courage to answer the question.
The reality is that the employment insurance fund is controlled by the government. Like the Liberals before them, the government will continue to set overly high premiums and try to pay out the least amount of benefits possible in order to generate huge surpluses for paying down the deficit.
Why does the government not acknowledge that, just like the Liberals, it will continue to gouge the unemployed?