There are some other challenges with eliminating the two weeks. For example, there is a constant churn in the market. It would actually block the accessibility of those who really need EI if everyone were to be put through the system even though they were just moving to another job. That's another reason we want to do this. But we did look at what Canadians asked us for, and that's what we are delivering.
On February 10th, 2009. See this statement in context.