It would be really difficult for EI recipients, because they would try to apply for another two weeks and they would be unsuccessful. They may in fact then call Service Canada to see what's going on and find out that their benefits have been exhausted. They may then try to apply for the CRB, but of course they would be told that because they had an open EI claim it wasn't possible.
It would create real chaos for Canadians. Also, our back-end systems would really be messed up. I guess that's the layperson's way of putting it. It really isn't an option for Canadians. If we want to continue with EI, we need to make this change before.