Bill C-371 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (benefit period increase for regional rate of unemployment)

This bill is from the 38th Parliament, 1st session, which ended in November 2005.

Sponsor

Yvon Godin  NDP

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of May 4, 2005
(This bill did not become law.)

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Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-371s:

C-371 (2023) Rail Passenger Priority Act
C-371 (2017) Prevention of Radicalization through Foreign Funding Act
C-371 (2013) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (illness of child) and another Act in consequence
C-371 (2011) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (illness of child) and another Act in consequence
C-371 (2010) An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (low-cost residential rental property)
C-371 (2009) An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (low-cost residential rental property)

Employment Insurance ActRoutine Proceedings

May 4th, 2005 / 3:35 p.m.


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NDP

Yvon Godin NDP Acadie—Bathurst, NB

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-371, an act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (benefit period increase for regional rate of unemployment).

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to introduce today four bills relating to the employment insurance program. I am pleased to note the support of my colleague from Halifax.

These bills are the outcome of a national consultation tour undertaken in 1998 on the effectiveness of the EI program and follow on three other bills I introduced on March 23.

I hope that hon. members will examine these bills and give them their support. As it stands, the EI program no longer meets the needs of Canadian workers. These bills will rectify the program's shortcomings.

The title of the first bill is an act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (benefit period increase for regional rate of unemployment).

This bill provides two weeks for every 1% by which the regional rate of unemployment exceeds 4% but does not exceed 10%; three weeks for every 1% by which the regional rate of unemployments exceeds 10%; and is subject to a maximum period of 52 weeks.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)