Minister, you are facing an unprecedented mobilization from many groups.
The authors of the letter you received included all of Quebec's major central labour bodies, the Canadian Labour Congress and the main groups defending the rights of the unemployed.
Employment insurance reform is a 2015 commitment by your government, a broken commitment, Mr. Minister. Acknowledge it.
You're offering temporary measures in the absence of a comprehensive reform that should be implemented. The economic situation you speak of and low unemployment rates should, on the contrary, prompt you to reform employment insurance and not wait for the next crisis.
In the budget, your government even suggests that, over the next two years, unemployment rates may change. So it's time for reform.
Why not be proactive and announce a necessary reform to the media?