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House Hansard - 107

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 4, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 107 - Oct/4/22
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Oct/4/22 2:28:34 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we need to talk about employment insurance. The government's decision to scrap the temporary measures is a disaster for seasonal workers. At the very end of their season, Ottawa changed the rules of the game and increased the minimum number of hours from 420 to 700. That means workers who qualified for EI 10 days ago now have nothing: no job, no benefits. I know this might seem trivial to the government, but for workers left out in the cold, it is a big deal. It means no income until next summer. That is a very big deal. What is the government going to do to help these workers?
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Context: House Hansard - 107 - Oct/4/22
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Oct/4/22 2:29:45 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, she talked about the pilot project, which is fine for workers who qualify. The problem is that seasonal workers no longer qualify because the government changed the rules by removing the temporary measures. The federal government is essentially condemning them to poverty. It is threatening the seasonal industry as a whole, and it is threatening the regions. Will the government show some empathy for people who are caught in this trap and restore the temporary measures while we await EI reform? That is what needs to happen.
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