text: From the article: "a statistic that wasn’t foreseen when the system was set up in 1971"
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  That line pretty much sums up every economic decision made by Pierre Trudeau (and indeed by Lester Pearson before him).
  
  What we really need is to transform EI into an Employment Insurance program, which it most certainly is not today.  Right now EI is a tax that goes into general government revenue and nominally has a bunch of loosely related programs associated with it through line-items on a budget, albeit with no guarantee or even expectation that the revenue and expenditures will match.
  
  Parental benefits are one of the many programs that maybe shouldn't be included in EI but handled through a separate, dedicated program.