This gets back to gig economy workers. It's something that, I think, a lot of other countries much like ours are also dealing with as well.
We've made changes to the Canada Labour Code to prevent employers from misclassifying their employees as independent contractors by shifting the burden to the employer. We've been focused a lot on education and awareness. We're working with stakeholders to address this. Any employer who knowingly misclassifies an employee in order to avoid their obligations is breaking the Canada Labour Code and will face consequences.
In the meantime, I know this is work that Minister Qualtrough has been taking charge of. I'm working with her on that.
I think it begins with how you make sure you have labour protections for people who are, name it, frankly in things that a lot of us use and that are very convenient, whether it be Uber, Instacart or whatever. Some of these, particularly Instacart and DoorDash, became very popular during the pandemic as people were inside.
How do you make sure that the people who are involved in that work, good people who are doing it to make some money and to have a wage...? How do you make sure that labour protections are there for them? How do you make sure the benefits are there for them, EI and such? This is something that, like I said, a lot of other countries in the world are grappling with and dealing with. It is a huge, changing part of our economy. It's growing because it's so convenient. It makes so much sense; so many of us have one of these, but how do you make sure people are protected? That's where we're arriving right now.