Bill C-69 An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on April 16, 2024

taxation year; (4) Paragraph 60(r) of the Act is repealed. (5) Paragraph 60(v.1) of the Act is replaced by the following: EI benefit repayment (v.1) any benefit repayment payable by the taxpayer under Part VII of the Employment Insurance Act on or before April 30 of the following year

Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1   to seasonal workers for another two years. While this does fall short of returning Prince Edward Island to one EI zone, it does extend much-needed relief to the almost 3,000 seasonal workers on P.E.I. Another measure in the budget is freezing the Confederation Bridge tolls and maintaining

Human Resources committee  We have raised the premiums to $1.66, up from $1.63. We get advice from the chief actuary every year to that effect. Currently, EI premiums are 22¢ below where they were when the current Leader of the Opposition was EI minister.

Human Resources committee  We committed to keeping EI premiums at $1.66 until we get advice from the chief actuary.

Human Resources committee  I guess what I'm trying to say, Madame Chabot, is that times have changed, and we're very mindful of the additional costs of major reform. That doesn't mean it isn't needed; it means we have to be mindful of when we do it and how we sequence it, so that the impact on premiums

Finance committee   for us to cut EI premiums and to cut our contributions to the CPP? That is not fiscal responsibility. That is fiscal recklessness. Our government believes in doing the tough things that you need to do to make compassionate investments in Canadians and to be fiscally responsible

Small Business   of it. EI is a tool that helps provide resources for people in their time of need. I would like to remind the member for Spadina—Fort York that it is the Canada Employment Insurance Commission, not the government, that sets the annual employment insurance premium rate according

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Chair, and thank you to our witnesses. My questions will go to Finance. I'm looking at page 41 of volume 1, table 1.1, under line item “employment insurance premiums”. The amount for 2022 appears to me to be quite healthy. Based on everything the IMF has said about

Public Accounts committee  No. It's our EI premiums under “revenues”.

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022   plan will be there when Canadians need them. Let us get the facts straight. The opposition is referring to the regular annual increase to EI and CPP premiums as payroll taxes. This is misleading. Putting money away for retirement or in case people lose their jobs is not a tax

Finance committee  If I heard you correctly in your exchange with Mr. Lawrence—I just want to confirm this so that I understand—you are advocating that there be no increases to EI premiums or CPP premiums. Is that correct? That's a yes-or-no question.

Finance committee   to Mr. Lawrence that you do not support increases to the EI and CPP premiums. Is that correct?

Finance committee  Thank you very much. Your time is over. These increases in EI premiums and CPP premiums are needed to ensure—

Finance committee  Thank you very much. I have been cordial and respectful. I've just been enforcing the time, as you were so concerned about, Mr. Lawrence. The increases in premiums for EI and CPP are needed to make sure that when people lose their jobs, in the case of EI, or when our seniors

Finance committee  If employers and employees were to pay an equal share of the EI premiums, that means the employee portion as a share of the total would increase. When I think about what I'm hearing from my constituents in Etobicoke Centre—I think we're all hearing about it and we talk about