You claimed that EI/UI was never a separate program with its own budget but rather that it was funded by general revenue and tapped into as a source of funds. This is contradicted by the quote I supplied.

On OAP you have supplied a quote from 1927 as if nothing changed after that. That pension was run by the provinces and with some funding by the federal government. The actual enabling legislation for for the modern OAP/OAS was _first_ introduced in 1951. Strange that your research did not turn that up. In any case I am telling what I directly know from my experience in the 60's.