Ed Komarnicki at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On March 10th, 2009. See this statement in context.

March 10th, 2009 / 12:25 p.m.

Conservative

Ed Komarnicki Conservative Souris—Moose Mountain, SK

I've blown a minute dealing with this issue.

With respect to employment insurance--and I realize it is another tool to be used, specifically with respect to access to that--as I understand it from the statistics, those who pay into employment insurance, almost 82%, qualify for that now. Others who haven't entered the system, who don't pay, may not qualify, and that's fair. When you indicated it was 40%, where did you get those figures from, and how do rationalize against what I'm saying?

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