Yes, very quickly I'll say that people are being forced into very unsafe working conditions. Those are people who still have their jobs. People without jobs are having difficulty getting the income supports they need.
I wanted to touch on how many workers come through the centre who have been fired for no legitimate reason and are, therefore, not able to get access to EI. Punitive things are taking place where people are marked down as fired and so forth. They don't get their record of employment, and they are denied their access to EI.
All of these things could be made so much easier if we reduced the hours of requirement, if we extended the duration, if we got rid of the punitive rules like quits and fires, and if we had a minimum amount of EI supports. Sixty per cent to 70% of [Technical difficulty—Editor] say that the 55% income replacement is the lowest replacement rate in the 80-year history of employment insurance. I will also mention that the premium rates are quite modest right now. They've been higher at different times. In the 1980s, they were much higher.
The truth is that it's not out of control. We can do this. We can do this collectively. We can protect workers. We can protect the economy, and we can do it responsibly. We can especially do it if the federal government gets back into the business of funding EI so that it's there when all of us need it.