Thank you for the question, which often comes up in conversations about benefits for the unemployed.
I would just like to remind you that, according to the annual report by the Canada Employment Insurance Commission, the CEIC, approximately 1% of claimants defraud employment insurance.
We are trying to make progress so that more unemployed people can access benefits, but EI discriminates against many of these people. In our opinion, the 1% of unemployed workers who defraud employment insurance is a very small number.
We're not interested in fighting potential fraudsters; we're interested in making things better for other unemployed people.