Recommendation 10, for example, says to “...re-engineer the Employment Insurance program to allow adjustments to anticipated economic downturns, rather than be based solely on recent but past experience.” That speaks to the regional context such that in some areas you don't qualify and in other areas you do. We're saying that when you get into a full-blown recession, you should be able to adapt and temporarily suspend the regional context, because past experience doesn't necessarily prevail. We're saying that in a recession, the program, in the regional context, isn't quite the same. We would see some modifications there.
Extending parental insurance to self-employed individuals and expanding the EI sickness benefits over time to 50 weeks have factors of additional costs in EI. It depends how you want to fund them. Certainly from a fair and just standpoint, the EI sickness benefit, for example, right now is 15 weeks, and that hasn't changed since 1971. People with cancer or some other chronic illnesses will be off work longer.
We see some of these but not necessarily all of them as being EI.