Absolutely not. The EI system is in desperate need of reform. It's in desperate need of modernization. It excludes thousands of workers because, as we've put in our presentation, they don't have the right number of hours. They may have worked for years, but the system isn't working for them when they're unemployed.
Certainly in terms of even special benefits, I remember dealing with this issue years ago in my previous life in Saskatchewan as the president of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour. We had a woman who worked for Canada Safeway who had gone on maternity leave. Under the old weeks accumulation, she qualified. A couple of years later, she had her second baby, but was then under the hours accumulation and didn't qualify anymore because she didn't have the required number of hours. It absolutely discriminates against people who don't have full-time, full-year work.