Mr. Chair, our government will not use the EI account as a slush fund like the Liberals did. They raided it for $50 billion.
We are moving towards the seven year break-even rate for 2017. We have reconfirmed it in our recent budget, and this is expected to result in a substantial reduction in EI premium rates. It will benefit over 16 million Canadians in 2017, including about 2.6 million Canadians who pay no federal income tax.