There are a number of difficult cases to reintegrating. We all know that older workers who have been long-time employees are difficult to reintegrate into the workforce. There are also workers who have been out of the workforce and have done child-rearing who are coming back into the workforce, and have had that gap between their periods of employment. It is difficult to reintegrate those people into the workforce, because they lack the skills and lack the supports.
In addition to that, there are a number of workers who go into the workforce who have not necessarily taken training before they went into the workforce. They went directly from high school into the workforce and have ended up in part-time, insecure, precarious work. They are not accumulating good hours and are not going to get employment insurance payments when they lose their jobs, because they're doing contract work. They have a difficult time being re-entered into the workforce.
The other problem we have is people who have been laid off long enough to exhaust their EI, who can't afford to take training, who have been unable to find employment because they don't have current or up-to-date skills and the opportunity for getting training didn't arise, or they weren't aware of it until they had been laid off to the point where they don't have income security.