Mr. Speaker, Conservatives respectfully submit a dissenting opinion on this report, highlighting the importance of not increasing EI premiums. At this time of high unemployment, especially high youth unemployment, our view is that we need to ensure that payroll taxes, which make it more difficult for businesses to create jobs, do not go up.
The government needs to clarify its position as to whether it stands with us in opposing payroll tax increases or whether it plans to further increase the taxes on job creation.