The question is not whether or not the writer is unemployed. The writer will always write. Our concern is when a writer takes on a secondary job in order to generate revenue for sustenance, basically buying time to write, and they're working at that job and they lose that job. The job is terminated for whatever reason for which normally an employee would be entitled to receive EI. They will have paid into it. They will have participated like any other Canadian. However, because of the fact that they write on their form that they are a writer, they are therefore designated as self-employed and denied the benefits.
On September 21st, 2006. See this statement in context.