Finance committee  I'm baulking slightly at the question. I don't object to the current rules. We haven't said workers who quit their jobs should be eligible for—

Finance committee  We accept the status quo: that workers should not be eligible for EI unless they have lost a job through no fault of their own. They have to be laid off by an employer. The vast majority of unemployed workers, given those circumstances, will seek another job. As you've suggested,

Finance committee  Well, the figures are there for everybody to look at in the report from the chief actuary. There's nothing about those figures that should come as a surprise to anybody. Why we suddenly thought it became unsustainable when the Prime Minister went to Davos I'm not sure, because th

Finance committee  Somewhere there is going to be a cost to the provinces for that subgroup of people age 65 to 67. Now, the transition off provincial social assistance programs and other provincial programs onto OAS and GIS happens once they turn 65, so that transition is going to be delayed. I g

Finance committee  I'll try to keep it to five minutes. It's a pretty big bill for five minutes. The first point I'd make is what we would have hoped for, which is that in our view the provisions in the bill relating to the changes to old age security and employment insurance should be removed fr