Interesting.
Under EI we had the working while on claim program. Someone could get a paid job for maybe 10 hours a week, and they would only lose 50¢ of EI for every dollar of earnings so that they wouldn't be punished for doing the right thing and putting in some hours of work. Is the government considering something similar here?
My worry is that you're going to have.... I understand you're saying you don't want to try to design the perfect program for every single human being because it would come out looking like Frankenstein. My concern is that you're going to have a million people on this. They're effectively going to be banned from doing any work. If they do get a job, say a coffee shop says it could hire the person for 10 hours a week, the person has to say, “Hell, no. If I do that, the government's going to punish me and cut me off. I'll be broke and won't know how to put food on my table.”
Shouldn't we be encouraging people to work when they can?