moved for leave to introduce Bill C-323, an act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (Schedule 1).
Mr. Speaker, the purpose of this bill is to ensure that contributors to employment insurance have sufficient weeks of benefits to tide them over until their next job.
This is to counteract the negative effects of employment insurance reform, which has created the so-called “spring gap”, the 5 to 15 week period not covered under the present program.
We hope that this bill will make it possible to remedy one of the major flaws in the employment insurance reform.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)