After slashing transfers to the provinces and getting more money from the unemployed, the workers and the employers who pay EI premiums but find it harder now to qualify for benefits, the federal government has racked up an accumulated surplus of $10.4 billion in the first six months of this fiscal year.
Slashing transfers saved more money that the workers, unemployed, and employers gave
It is not stated how the funding breaks down. I think the system got it wrong because I used familiar phrases
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