Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to say thank you, Ms. Symonds, for coming here today to testify in front of committee and to bring forward your lived experience as a seasonal worker and the concerns of the Southern Nova Scotia Seasonal Workers Alliance. I think it's important that we focus today on hearing from workers, talk about seasonal workers and talk about employment insurance. It's important that we focus on that and that this remains the focus of our discussions here today.
I also want to take a second to thank my colleague Madame Chabot for bringing this important study forward, for spearheading it and bringing us here together. This is an important issue, so I want to say thank you to my colleague for bringing this important conversation to light.
Ms. Symonds, there are 350,000 seasonal workers across Canada. Many of them are concentrated in Quebec and the Atlantic provinces. I want to ask you a general question. What are the most pressing challenges that seasonal workers face regarding employment insurance?