I think the bottom line for us is that our EI system needs to be modernized. There is lots that we can learn from the CERB rollout that we should be transferring to an EI modernization.
Our point is that, with the nature of the labour market and particularly the nature of jobs where many women are working in very precarious, low-paid work, these jobs are not necessarily covered by employment insurance or the benefits are not good enough, and they have to move from one job to another.
What we are saying is that it needs to be more agile. It needs to require lower thresholds for qualification and engagement in the employment insurance system, and it needs to have improved benefits that meet income adequacy standards. What we really mean by this is that EI should be providing a living wage to those who are claiming it.
It's very important, and I think that if there's anything that COVID has shown us, it's that our EI system needs to modernize, to get with the times, in order to make sense for the sort of labour market we have, to really give employment protection to those who most need it.