Finance committee  We certainly saw a lot of outward migration out west prior to the oil drop. Then, of course, all these workers came back with fewer EI benefits than their counterparts who they were working with in Alberta, because they got the five-week extension and a bunch of other changes. Ou

Finance committee  The first suggestion we would make—and we have been saying it—is to revert back to 2012 as a starting point, because those changes were really targeted toward seasonal workers and precarious work, part-time work. That would be the starting point. There's no question that EI is p

Finance committee  Thank you, Wayne. It's a pleasure to present to you again. Welcome to P.E.I. My name is Lori MacKay. I'm also the chair of the PEI Coalition for a Fair EI, so employment insurance is the topic I want to talk about again. As I've commented before, the last federal budget has t

Finance committee  I don't have the dollar amounts. That example is straight across the province. One of the things I said when this started was that we have people living in Charlottetown who work in a federal government job in Summerside, and we have people living in Summerside working in a fede

Finance committee  Obviously, repealing all of the 2012 changes would help seasonal workers, because almost every aspect of those changes is a tax on seasonal workers. You talked about the black hole that exists now in the Atlantic and a lot of seasonal areas. I want to say that seasonal work is al

Finance committee  I'm not as up on the temporary foreign workers situation as I probably should be. However, we are concerned that there will be an influx of workers who'll take the seasonal jobs and, therefore, that we'll have more displaced workers living in our region. That's for certain a majo

Finance committee  Of course. The PEI Coalition For Fair EI would like to thank the members of the committee for hearing from us. I am pleased to be able to appear before you on behalf of the coalition. We formed this coalition with community groups, citizens, and unions as a response to the 2012