Two-thirds of working-age families who are poor in Canada have at least one person in the family who is working full-time all year. A lot of those people are in employment on a regular basis, but they're moving from one low-wage, precarious job to another, so if people had a bit more EI income support in the short periods between jobs, it would be increasing the incomes of a lot of working-poor families.
It's not as though we're talking about people who are unemployed for dramatically long periods of time. We have a very low duration of unemployment now. But the fact of the matter is that an awful lot of Canadians do transition through a period of unemployment at some point in the year, even with a 6% unemployment rate. Probably about 15% of them still experience a spell of unemployment in the year.
To draw this disjunction between people who are unemployed and people who are employed just totally abstracts from the real experience of people, which is that huge numbers of people are moving between those states all the time.