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Adrian Wyld/CP Adrian Wyld
Ottawa

Dustin from Calgary gets results

The Finance Minister is listening apparently
By Aaron Wherry

TodayFinance Minister Jim Flaherty says employment insurance premiums will be frozen for the next three years.

Three months ago. Mr. Speaker, we have crowd-sourced over 3,000 questions from Canadians across the country for the Prime Minister on economic challenges facing the middle class. I want to ask the Prime Minister a question I received from Dustin in Calgary. His question is specifically about his EI premiums, which are rising by $50 this year, a direct payroll tax increase. Dustin would like to know why the Prime Minister chose to raise EI premiums for him and every other working Canadian?

(EI premiums have been a going concern of the Liberal corner.)