Certainly having national standards is the first step.
Altering EI so that it's reflective of different regional issues and regional concerns would certainly be the second recommendation that would occur to me, just off the top of my head.
Certainly the working poor are coming in our doors. It's quite alarming. Whereas traditionally we saw people who were living and sleeping in rough circumstances, it's certainly not at all uncommon for us to be seeing families who are split up because it's very difficult to find a family shelter: mom and the kids go to one area, dad goes to a different shelter. And in many of those circumstances, one if not two members of the family have full-time, full-year jobs.