Madam Speaker, the only thing Ottawa took away from the pandemic is debt. The budget passes that debt on to workers.
Ottawa expects to collect an extra $24 billion in workers' EI premiums. However, the government is not putting that money towards EI reform. It is taking workers' money and using it to pay off $24 billion in pandemic debt.
Why not use workers' money to protect them rather than paying off pandemic debt at their expense?