Gérard Deltell at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On March 9th, 2016. See this statement in context.

March 9th, 2016 / 5:10 p.m.

Conservative

Gérard Deltell Conservative Louis-Saint-Laurent, QC

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. Kelly, I'm pleased to see and talk to you.

I have some questions about page 7 of your document, under the heading “Employers Competing with EI”. It says, “During the past year, have any employees asked you to lay them off so that they can collect EI benefits?”

I'm from Quebec. I'm very pleased to see that it's only 18%. On the other hand, we can see that in Atlantic Canada it's 27% and in Ontario it's 22%. How do you explain the difference between Atlantic Canada and Quebec?

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