As I said, someone who is in a self-employed work arrangement is not eligible for the income support side of employment insurance. However, as my colleague mentioned, there are opportunities for Parliament to design interventions that provide people in those situations with income support while they're doing something else to make themselves more employable. That can include training, upskilling, or job replacement partnerships, where the province, for example, might pay a portion of the person's salary while that person is learning a new job working for an employer. There is no passive income support, but there are definitely opportunities for active income support.
On March 9th, 2020. See this statement in context.