Anybody who gets a paycheque in Canada has looked at the top and bottom lines once or twice, comparing the money they earn to the money they get to keep after the government is done with them. After a while, they stop looking, because it’s just too painful. It’s a shame: if Canadians kept looking at their cheque stubs, they would soon demand an end to Canada’s rotten-to-the-core Employment Insurance (EI) program.
