That's correct.
On the issue of access, in the last statistics we had it was 40% in 2008. Now, it did go up a little during the recession, but it didn't go up substantially. To compare it to other countries again, for example... In Canada that's 40%. What the government continues to say is that 82% of those potentially eligible get it, but that's like cherry-picking a specific field so that it looks better.
Over half of Canadians are not getting EI if they're unemployed. That's one of the problems of the whole access issue: the lack of hours or where they live or whatever it is that causes them to not get it. In Germany, by contrast, 70% of the unemployed were covered by EI in the last statistical year they have, and 85% were in Sweden.
So the issue really is one of access and it disproportionately affects women and part-time workers. In the study we're doing on poverty, we've heard about this access issue on a repeated basis.
Would you agree that part-time workers and women are particularly badly affected?