That's 50% of total allowable earnings. The previous pilot project was based on the amount of EI you were receiving. You were allowed to receive up to 40% of the amount you were making. If you were making maximum EI, you could make $195 without losing a nickel. That's the truth.
But now people are working, and it's the ones on the bottom end who are being hurt. I'm not saying this for any political gain; I'm trying to inform. Maybe your officials aren't getting it, but people are being hurt. They're asking to be paid under the table because of the change. They go out and work an eight-hour shift at 10 bucks an hour. Now they're losing $40 of that, and if you have to look after a babysitter and drive to a workplace, so much the worse. It's because of the allowable earnings provision. There must have been some kind of motivation to drop this provision.