Mr. Speaker, once again, I would like to welcome my colleague.
I would like to speak about the employment insurance premiums and the SMEs that she mentioned in the same breath. She did not hesitate to criticize our small EI premium increases, but I wonder if she remembers that, in the last Parliament, it was her party that proposed a bill to increase premiums by 35%. Furthermore, SMEs have strongly criticized NDP election promises to double pension benefits.
Catherine Swift recently stated that adopting these measures would increase rates by 70% for all SMEs, which would kill them.
I would like to ask my colleague to explain why she is constantly changing her mind about these two issues.