You're right to say that sometimes comparing and contrasting what goes on elsewhere helps to give us a better understanding of where we are at.
Let's consider what goes on in Nordic countries—because as you so correctly pointed out, we are a Nordic country—like Norway, Finland and Sweden. Clearly, they have far more generous employment insurance programs, as far as access and number of weeks are concerned, than Canada, which is nevertheless a developed, industrialized country. Have you conducted a study on this? Why should we be maintaining a more restrictive employment insurance program, from the unemployed's point of view, than these Nordic countries?