Thank you, Madam Chair. We missed you. Welcome back to your own committee.
I would like to extend my greetings to the witnesses. Thank you for being here and for submitting your briefs.
I'll start with you, Ms. Senneville.
I'll talk about employment insurance. I gather that it's long overdue for reform. A promise was made in 2015, and then the government went from one pilot project to another. It must know by now whether the pilot projects worked. The Bloc Québécois, through Louise Chabot, a member until the end of the last Parliament, even tabled a bill to reform employment insurance.
We're going through challenging economic times right now. We need a program that insures people. It isn't right to have an insurance program that fails to insure 50% of the people who are meant to be insured. No one would sign up for that type of insurance.
What do we need to change in the employment insurance program, and fast? What major changes are urgently needed?