Certainly. I'm actually a member of an employment insurance working group that has put out a pre-budget statement. In that statement, we cited federal government research from HRSDC showing that employment insurance is the single most effective automatic stabilizer that the government has, and it reduces the impact of recessions and unemployment by about 14% in the wake of recessions.
It's also money that can be got out quickly, so it's the fastest out the door. If you're worried about implementing the right infrastructure project, take your time to implement those infrastructure projects that we need to have done, and get money to people through the employment insurance program so that they can buy the things they need in their daily lives and make ends meet until they can find another job.