Brodbeck:
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff must think Canadians are morons if he believes voters will get behind his so-called employment insurance reforms.
It was his party, including many of his current MPs such as Saskatchewan's Ralph Goodale, who gutted the program in the first place in 1996 and started racking up EI surpluses in the tens of billions of dollars.
Maybe Ignatieff, who wasn't living in Canada at the time, doesn't know that.
The Liberals made sweeping changes to the program in the mid-1990s and cut, among other things, the maximum benefits and the length of time one could collect. They also extended the qualifying period, making it more difficult to get benefits.
Cancel the EI negotiations; they are a waste of time
There is no point in engaging the Liberals in the bipartisan negotiations over EI reform if Liberals are planning to trigger a fall election anyway.
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