Mr. Speaker, there is some worrisome news for the Conservative government. There seems to be division within the Conservative ranks over who the employment insurance fund actually belongs to.
Last night, the Conservative member from York Centre passionately told the finance committee that EI funds did not belong to the government but to the workers and employers who paid into it. We could not agree more, yet the Minister of Finance's own omnibus bill continues to rip off more than half a billion dollars from the EI fund, which has been panned by experts. This plan shows to be destructive and expensive.
Will the minister take his own colleague's advice and scrap this dangerous EI scheme?