You can opt in and out of EI now as a self-employed worker, which we think is important, but that should be expanded to some of the other benefits that you can get under EI, and under taxation, especially when it comes to being an employee or an independent contractor, there needs to be clarity.
I can't remember who among the panel has mentioned this now but there's a fog of confusion between Finance and the Canada Revenue Agency in determining when an employee is considered to be an employee or when they're considered to be an independent contractor, and this will sometimes go contrary to the intentions of the two parties. Then the employer and the employee end up facing back taxes based on a ruling by CRA.
We would push the government to consider...and this impacts a whole raft of regions of the economy.