Yes. Thank you, Danielle, for that question. I really appreciate it.
We have a list of probably 30 individual recommendations around what we would like to see happen to the employment insurance program, but some of the temporary measures have been very helpful for sure. In the case of work sharing and what it allows us to do, I would like to see more companies use the work-sharing element of the program. It allows us to save jobs.
For example, we have engaged the work-sharing program in the forestry sector, which means that we're not depleting the workforce. We're sharing the work over a period of weeks or months, basically, and we've actually recommended it and used it over time in pretty much every sector where Unifor represents people, that being that we think it's critically important to keep capacity, infrastructure and supply chains going.
Some of the ways we can do that are by making sure that we keep people working through a crisis—we need programs like work-sharing—and supporting this idea of making sure people are staying at work and being productive during an economic downturn, like the one we're starting to see now in Canada.
