EI remedies too little, too late: Opposition
Tue Mar 24, 12:21 PM
Julian Beltrame, the Canadian Press

The article talks about EI and how many people who have lost their jobs are eligible for EI. The current government claim to have set up procedures that are going to make it easy for people to apply and receive EI. The opposition agues that the government has not taken enough measures because that number of people receiving EI is so much lower than that of the number of those who have lost their jobs. The opposition is worried about those people without jobs who are not receiving EI. Is the government doing enough to ensure the well being of those without jobs and how the loss of jobs affecting the people at large.



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People are currently losing their jobs and have opted to saving the little money they have. Living on EI has proven too hard when others are not eligible to receive EI. People have tucked away their money because they expect to be more people losing their jobs in the near future. People are no longer consuming as much as they were the past years. With the loss of supply of money to spend and saving the little they had the GDP is bound to go because investors will not be willing to invest in the falling Canadian economy.


Help is on the Way

Human Resources Minister Diane Finley announced a $60-million program to hire more workers to help speed delivery of EI cheques. She told reporters the department has already brought back retired staff and re-assigned others from other departments to meet the higher load of applicants. The government has proven to be doing something about the large number of EI application being sent to them because the number of people who were receiving EI in January, up 23,700 from December and up 104,000 from last February. Even thought employment is bound to get worse, the government is willing to make some changes to accommodate those people who have been laid off.