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Finance committee  For my part, Mr. Ste‑Marie, I'd like to thank you for your excellent questions. It's true that now is the time to solve the EI problem. Now is never the right time for the government. At the height of the crisis, we were told that it couldn't be done because it was a crisis and

May 17th, 2023Committee meeting

Pierre Céré

Finance committee  Thank you very much for the questions, Mr. Ste‑Marie. Indeed, I have the impression that, otherwise, we wouldn't be talking much about employment insurance. At the same time, I can understand the shame of the Liberal government for not taking action. I can understand the shame o

May 17th, 2023Committee meeting

Pierre Céré

Finance committee  Thank you, honourable member. You're right, there is a deficit in the employment insurance fund, a crisis deficit. This isn't the first time in its history that the unemployment insurance or employment insurance fund has run a deficit following a crisis. The premiums paid by wor

May 17th, 2023Committee meeting

Pierre Céré

Finance committee  I will answer questions later. Thank you.

May 17th, 2023Committee meeting

Pierre Céré

Finance committee  Ladies and gentlemen members of the committee, thank you very much for this invitation, which arrived somewhat at the last minute. I was invited earlier today at around 2 p.m. I have prepared some notes to make a presentation on the relationship between the employment insurance

May 17th, 2023Committee meeting

Pierre Céré

Finance committee  That's right. The employment insurance system, as it is called today, was reshaped through austerity measures in the 1990s under the Mulroney government until the Axworthy reform, which reduced the protections of the employment insurance program. The program was literally put in

May 20th, 2021Committee meeting

Pierre Céré

Finance committee  That's right. There are also all those who have temporary jobs. That's a lot of people. Some people find themselves unemployed between two contracts. I'm also thinking of all those who have part-time jobs, who have trouble accumulating hours of work and who will find themselves

May 20th, 2021Committee meeting

Pierre Céré

May 20th, 2021Committee meeting

Pierre Céré

Finance committee  Currently, the number of EI claimants is approximately 2.3 million. I mentioned the fact that 35% of the workforce is in precarious employment. So it quickly becomes hundreds of thousands of people. That's a lot of people. There are also all indigenous communities that are landl

May 20th, 2021Committee meeting

Pierre Céré

Finance committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Ste-Marie. These are technical issues, of course. When we talk about the divisor, it's as though we were speaking Martian. The divisor is what will calculate the benefit rate, that is, the money a person will get, the unemployment benefit. In othe

May 20th, 2021Committee meeting

Pierre Céré

Finance committee  Mr. Chair and members of the committee, good morning and thank you for inviting me. The public health crisis we have been in since the spring of 2020 is coupled with an economic crisis, the likes of which we have not known in our lifetimes. Last year alone, between mid-March an

May 20th, 2021Committee meeting

Pierre Céré

Finance committee  The economy would have completely collapsed. A lot of people would have gone broke. A lot of people would not have been able to cover their basic necessities, paying their rent, mortgage and so on. The help provided by the government was enormous. I did some quick math. Since Se

April 22nd, 2021Committee meeting

Pierre Céré

Finance committee  It depends on what you mean by guaranteed basic income. There are many schools of thought. Is a guaranteed basic income an alternative to all of the support and income replacement measures? By those measures, I mean every form of income replacement, from occupational illness co

April 22nd, 2021Committee meeting

Pierre Céré

Finance committee  You brought up two aspects. The CRB is basically for those who are not eligible for EI, in other words, self-employed workers, who make up 15% of the workforce—three million people in Canada. Those who have been out of work since the beginning of the pandemic are counting on tha

April 22nd, 2021Committee meeting

Pierre Céré

Finance committee  Ladies and gentlemen members of Parliament, thank you very much for your invitation. You have received my notes, but I had to make some adjustments to my testimony as a result of Monday's budget. We all know that since March 2020 the pandemic has shaken the labour world and the

April 22nd, 2021Committee meeting

Pierre Céré