Human Resources committee  At the risk of losing some of your time, Madam Gazan, I need a little bit of clarification. I missed exactly what it is you want me to support. Is it a previous proposal?

Human Resources committee  I can't speak to that specific issue but, as you pointed out, life is full of uncertainties. I mean, even last February we didn't know what was going to be happening in March and April, and look at how our lives have changed. We can't anticipate that. This is why I feel that peop

Human Resources committee  Madam Young, for the most part, I'll defer to Madam Mahboubi on this. I would just reiterate my suggestion that special benefits might be structured in a much more flexible way to give people agency and control. Sometimes disabilities come and go and we can't anticipate that, and

Human Resources committee  Thank you for that. The bottom line is that we should be worried about inequalities in our society, all sorts of inequalities, because ultimately they shape opportunities. Different types of inequalities shape opportunity in a different way. The Great Gatsby curve is a relati

Human Resources committee  No, that wouldn't be my view. Let me perhaps rephrase this. When the 1971 legislation was written, for every dollar that an employee contributed to unemployment insurance, as it was then called, the employer contributed $1.40. The reason was that, for every person who quit, the

Human Resources committee  Thank you for the question, Madam Falk. The question of work incentives very much influenced the current shape of the EI system we have now. I have, perhaps, two concerns about that. I think incentives matter when it comes to the impact on geographic mobility. As my colleague

Human Resources committee  I think one of the things we've learned over the course of the pandemic—and this is why people saw the CERB as being very successful—was the ease of application and the agency that people had. That has to be paired, of course, with accountability to the public purse. However, if

Human Resources committee  I think there is naturally a good deal of confusion about this topic. I'm confused by it as well. The way I make sense of it is that there's “basic income: the why” and “basic income: the how”. I think everyone's agreed on the “why.” There are different rationales. We want basic

Human Resources committee  Thank you. That's exactly what I'm suggesting. Thanks for the opportunity to expand on it. That's what I see the Canada workers benefit being. This said, people face all kinds of challenges in their lives. Money is not everything. There is an important interface with the provin

Human Resources committee  I completely agree. What I'd like to add, though, is that we should think of the Canada workers benefit as an important complement to EI for people with part-time work for partial hours, who don't otherwise qualify. We would catch them through the Canada workers benefit and then

Human Resources committee  That's a good question. Historically it was 66 2/3%. I'm not sure where to put the number on the increase, but it should increase. The other thing you should note is that, if they're making above the maximum insurable earnings, it's even less than that. What does the future of

Human Resources committee  Mr. Long, I'm not as well versed as I should be on that. There are officials at ESDC who can really speak to some of the innovations in the Netherlands and other countries in Europe, but I'd be a bit out of my scope. My own feeling is that we can get into a great deal of diffic

Human Resources committee  Thank you. That's absolutely correct. As I tried to outline in my opening remarks, because we have so many regions we are stretching the capacities of Statistics Canada's survey instrument to its very limit. Statistics Canada wants to give you the best signal possible, so it use

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Ms. Chabot. If you don't mind, I'm going to answer in English. The government has currently—and this seems like a temporary measure—suggested that everyone should have the same eligibility rule, and my colleague from the C.D. Howe has suggested the importance of that

Human Resources committee  That's correct.