Thank you, Madam Chair.
Good day to our witnesses. Thank you for joining us. Thank you very much, Dr. Vosko, Ms. Calhoun and Mrs. Macklin, for your presentations.
Dr. Vosko, our analysts have done a thorough review of your work. They have prepared some very intelligent questions for us and I'd like to put a few of them to you at this time. For instance:
In your research work, you have examined how precarious employment deviates from the standard employment relationship in several countries. Could you provide us with an explanation of how precarious employment compared with the standard employment relationship? What are the differences and similarities between these two types of employment relationships? Would you agree that the current EI program was designed for the standard of employment relationship? If yes, what kinds of income security programs are needed to address precarious forms of employment?