Yes, absolutely. Let's just go back to before we were dealing with the recession. You'll recall what happened to people in Toronto during the SARS crisis, the people who worked in hotels as part-time workers--again, predominantly women--who couldn't get access to EI, even though they had paid in for years, because they didn't have enough hours. We need to do something about the hours for access.
By the way, we keep asking HRSDC the question of how it is that they say 80% to 82% of people who would be eligible for EI actually get it. We ask why 100% of people don't get it. If they qualify for it, 100% of the people who are unemployed should get it, not 80%, and certainly not 40%.