We would agree with you that EI should be going to people who have contributed. The system is predicated on that. The problem here is that we need to take a broad brush approach to a whole set of laws, including labour standards, the Canada Labour Code, etc., and start to drill down into this problem of involuntary self-employment in which some of the larger employers offload their responsibilities for contributing to EI and CPP, as well as the problem of some employees not contributing to CPP.
On February 21st, 2017. See this statement in context.