Yes, you're right. Being able to have EI for those workers means that those trained workers stay in the region and come back to that employer year after year. As she mentioned, there's a lot of on-the-job training that you can't get elsewhere. Those employers have already invested that time in those workers, and they don't want to have to lose them next year. If you have the longer benefit period, if you have the appropriate EI region that reflects the economic reality, and if you allow workers to try another job and not be penalized for that....
This year we had an unusual crisis in fishing where there just weren't as many hours. A lot of workers didn't even get the hours that they needed. We need to recognize when there are unusual economic circumstances and come in with something that helps those workers who now aren't qualifying. The alternative is that they leave the region, and the region loses those skilled workers. We don't necessarily want to train them out of that job. Those jobs, as you heard, provide a huge amount of GDP to the economy. We rely on those jobs being there.