Employment Insurance  The Canadian Federation of Independent Business said that the credit will help create 25,000 person-years of employment. While we are lowering taxes for 90% of businesses, the Liberals are still supporting a 45-day work year that would drastically increase premiums by 35%.

Employment Insurance  Speaker, what I will agree with is that lowering EI payroll taxes, like we have done by 15%, will save small businesses over $550 million at a time where they understand the importance of decreasing payroll taxes. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business says that the credit will create 25,000 person-years of employment. While we are lowering payroll taxes to 90% of businesses, they want us to raise those taxes.

Employment Insurance  The same Canadian Federation of Independent Business that he quoted said that this credit will create 25,000 person-years of—

Employment Insurance  Speaker, our small business hiring credit will lower employment insurance payroll taxes by 15% and allow small businesses to save more than $550 million. The CFIB stated that the credit will create 25,000 person-years of employment. The Liberals and the NDP support a 45-day work year that would increase premiums—

Business of Supply  According to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the credit will create 25,000 person-years of employment. The minister also confirmed that in 2017, EI premiums would go down from the current $1.88 per $100 of earnings to $1.47 per $100 of earnings. This is excellent news for both workers and small business employers.

Business of Supply  The plan would effectively lower the EI premiums for small business by 15%. According to the CFIB, this would create 25,000 person-years of employment. That is great news. Therefore, we are strongly supporting Canadian families with these important measures. Under our government, Canadian families at all income levels have seen increases of about 10% in their real after-tax income.

Business of Supply  The Canadian Federation of Independent Business estimates that the credit will create 25,000 person-years of employment over the next two to three years. The minister also confirmed that in 2017, EI premiums will be cut from the current $1.88 per $100 of earnings to $1.47. Employers will have more money to invest in training and increased wages, and workers will have more money in their wallets at the end of the day so they can afford things like hockey and other items their families would like them to invest in.

Natural Resources committee  Doing that, we calculate that the closures of the Oakville and Montreal refineries produced a loss over a five-year period of 25,000 person years of work—I should point out again this is direct, indirect, and what they call induced jobs—$2.6 billion of GDP, and $330 million in lost taxes, both federal and provincial. Now Ontario and Quebec are at the mercy of supply disruptions in Europe because that's where the excess supply or the shortfall must come from.

Nuclear Reactor Finance Limitation Act  The recent sale of three Candus to Korea has generated more than $1 billion in Canadian content, providing some 25,000 person-years of work over six years. The Korean Candu sale in 1992 was Canada's largest export order. It is well known to most Canadians and certainly to all those interested in the nuclear industry of the Prime Minister's most successful and recent trip to China where letters of undertaking were signed with the Chinese for two more reactors, estimated to bring back a total of $4 billion worth of investment in Canada.