Previously, if I recall correctly, you needed 15 hours per week for 10 weeks, or 150 hours. Then the threshold was raised to 910 hours. The argument given by the former Liberal government and the present Conservative government was that young people should have to work a lot of hours to avoid them becoming employment insurance claimants. We shouldn't encourage them not to work. That was the argument, if you recall.
And where do pregnant women fit in all that? Should a woman decide not to get pregnant one night because the government might think she is abusing the system? Recently a young girl called my office. She was three months pregnant. She worked at Jiffy Products in Shippagan, and they had laid a shift off. She had worked 423 hours. She called me in tears and asked me what she was going to do and who was going to hire her now that she was three months pregnant. How can you go to an employer and ask them to hire you for a few months when you are shortly to be on maternity leave before long?