Why should somebody pay into employment insurance and not receive a benefit because of an arbitrary number of hours? Those things aren't actually helping individual persons. Why should somebody have to go to a part-time job or a job that does not meet their employment insurance requirements and have to pay that, and then later not be eligible for CERB?
I don't want to hear about other programs. Why is it $5,000? Why not $4,000, $3,000, $2,000 or no amount of work? They're denied both.