Finance committee  The means are there, clearly. Where there is a will, there is a way. I was in a car accident a month ago. A week later, my car was fixed and running again; and it is just metal. But when someone loses their job, that person can no longer pay the rent, or feed their children, or p

Finance committee  We do not help people to find jobs, but to obtain employment insurance benefits. We are funded by the United Way, which provides funds to us so that we can help people who have lost their job to obtain employment insurance benefits while they look for another job. We are not in

Finance committee  In fact, it was the Employment Insurance Monitoring and Assessment Report. I have some excerpts.

Finance committee  Absolutely. No problem.

Finance committee  In fact, we see this more and more. I have been with the Mouvement action-chômage de Montréal since 1994. The objective to reply within 28 days has always existed. So the administrative machine feels it is reasonable to provide a reply within four weeks, apparently. However, for

Finance committee  Yes, that is correct. I spoke of Rimouski, but let's say it is processed elsewhere. At a certain point, this agent will work on another file, and someone in Shawinigan will take over. However, when the citizen would like an answer, there is no one to contact. He cannot speak to

Finance committee  Thank you very much for the invitation. People often say that if you want to know where you are going, you have to remember where you've been. And so I would like to remind you of a commitment made by the House of Commons in 1989. It was a unanimous commitment made by all partie