Mr. Chair, finally, an answer.
Thus, there is a $1.8 billion surplus in the employment insurance fund and a $1.4 billion budget surplus. On December 6, 2013, Jim Flaherty, who was finance minister at the time, said:
We do not take EI funds and use them to balance the budget. That's what the Liberals did.
Why did the Minister of Finance renege on this promise?