Your suggestion is a very good one. As you no doubt know, in order to qualify for the pilot project as a seasonal worker, you have to show that, in the past five years, you applied for EI three times and twice during the same period of the year.
Not only does this flawed and convoluted method end up excluding young people, for instance, who you want to keep in your region, who might want to work in these industries, but who can't qualify as “seasonal”. The solution you're proposing would be perfect, because then you would have a reason on the record of employment that would say, for example, “seasonal layoff” or “lay off of a seasonal employer”. That would be a huge help to the administration.
In addition, a seasonal worker who works in the agricultural sector with Mr. Melvin and Mr. Berrigan, for instance, could do temporary work in the off-season and leave it to return to seasonal employment—