Thank you, Chair.
Ms. Regehr, this follows up on your statement that EI is harder to get. Would you not acknowledge two significant changes our government made that speak to the issue of precarious employment and the area of training? One is that we eliminated the new entrant and the “re-entrant after a period of time” minimum criterion from the EI system, which was a punitive 900-and-some hours. The data showed it was impacting women and youth more than any other demographic. The other is that we are recently allowing significant training initiatives, with the eligibility of receiving EI benefits while in full-time training.
Would you not acknowledge that these speak to some degree to the issues around precariousness?