Human Resources committee  My take on the matter is that the employment insurance system needs to be improved and that the eligibility criteria must be relaxed. This single eligibility criteria is no different from the health care single eligibility criterion. Medicare does not make a distinction between t

Human Resources committee  Let me begin by offering amends for what I said. I said that unemployment insurance cuts had been broadly documented for the past 20 years, but it seems that this was not so in every case. I did not come here today on behalf of an organization to debate prejudices. It is rather

Human Resources committee  No. Once again, according to our economist's calculations, for the best 12 weeks, the cost would be $320 million and if the eligibility criteria were relaxed, it would be $400 million. We are talking about relaxing the criteria, and not about a single eligibility criterion. Our c

Human Resources committee  Thank you for having invited us, Mr. Chair, members of Parliament. I represent Comité Chômage de Montréal, but more broadly, the Conseil national des chômeurs et chômeuses, the CNC, for which I am a spokesperson. The CNC is an umbrella organization comprised of groups from diffe