Could I just address the issue?
I owned a grocery store. We had a full bakery and we had apprentices in the bakery department. They had that challenge of being married, having children, having payments to make, and what not. When they had to leave our employment to upgrade and work through their apprenticeship, they had, of course, the time between EI.... So as an employer, we said, “Okay, we'll just continue your wages,” but we asked them to sign a two-year agreement that they would stay with us after they received their journeyman ticket. That worked for us.
Has there ever been a recommendation to the government to look at, when these employees go out to be trained, the employer picking up the EI, but being reimbursed with the EI payment when it finally shows up?