If you qualify for EI with 630 hours, it gives you 17 weeks of employment insurance. If you qualify for the five extra weeks, that would give you 22 weeks.
The black hole is a big reality. We have a second food bank that is in high demand. It's so sad to see people have to swallow their pride and go to a food bank.
Things have changed so much with the downturn in the groundfish fishery, with quota cuts and with lobster catches dropping. There are double the lobster pounds around here. Where there were 10 now there are 20, so everybody gets a little work.
It's frustrating that no matter how hard you try or look for other places...you check job banks and there is nothing. There is no other big business within hours of here.
Thank you.