Mr. Louis Beauséjour at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On October 27th, 2009. See this statement in context.

October 27th, 2009 / 4:30 p.m.

Director General, Employment Insurance Policy, Skills and Employment Branch, Department of Human Resources and Skills Development

Louis Beauséjour

For the purpose of this exercise, it is important to know that on an annual basis, if we say that there are 500,000 people out of work, most of them will not receive EI benefits for 52 weeks. We agree on that.

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