Human Resources committee  You asked if we have looked.... Quebec, I believe, was one of the first provinces to take the training allocation, the training adjustments, out of the EI. We're doing that in Nova Scotia. We're looking at it in different ways. Industry is looking at it in different ways. We're l

Human Resources committee  Most of our concerns are what you just addressed. If you can show us what mechanisms you're putting in place to control this so those things don't just bounce up and hit us, the bill can grow and develop as you're going. That is our concern. You had your CEOs and ministers here

Human Resources committee  Put those conditions in and show us how, and we'll be with you, to a point.

Human Resources committee  I believe we do have time to have some consultation done in some of the areas that have higher EI. I don't want to delay it so that we don't know where we're going or anything like that, but warts and wrinkles—and I would agree with Mr. Atkinson all day in what he's talking about

Human Resources committee  I believe we should take the word “insurance” and define whether it's insurance to look after you when you're not working or insurance to enhance your training and qualifications so that you can continue in employment. Those are two different things, I believe, especially for us

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I actually didn't think you were listening much to some of our comments, but that's exactly what I have written there—what you said—and I thank you for that. Maybe it's time we looked into that approach and see where it takes us.

Human Resources committee  We would like to continue to help you out with your employment problem with our people, but you can't take them all.

Human Resources committee  If you can show us how it's not, then we'll accept it.

Human Resources committee  Right. It's fitting that I tell this, because it's not as simple as people going out west or going somewhere else. This gets to my point about controlling this board, this bank account, this crown corporation. Last month, EI disqualified one of our people who went out to work a

Human Resources committee  Ma'am, if you don't come out and talk to communities and say what you said and let us talk to you, you'll never move the thought process to the idea that this is just an account. You never will. And there are good things; there's lots of good being done here. So it's definitely c

Human Resources committee  Thank you, sir. I believe, just directly to your question, what would satisfy or at least comfort some of our communities, yours and ours in resources and so on, is the board's structure. Make sure there is some industry representation, that there are people there who the CEO or

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Regarding keeping the crown corporation and the two, that is the EI Commission and the parliamentary system, under the crown corporation I fear our conversations would get too business and corporate minded. With all the EI it is important to run it that

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Savage. The social impact of EI in any industry that has a seasonal dependency can be measured in the way the children are dressed to go to school, whether they have money to go to the ski hill with the child of the government employee who makes $60,000

Human Resources committee  I don't. You need more.

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. This is my first time in front of the parliamentary committee. I do thank you for the privilege of being asked to give our opinion. I am one of the managers in the fisheries industry in Louisbourg, Cape Breton. We h