Trudeau-Poilievre talking point fact check: do Canadians pay more for EI today than they did in 2015?

Liberals say the EI premium rate is lower today while Conservatives say Canadians are paying more, but neither party has highlighted one factor that explains this discrepancy

In Question Period on Sept. 22, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre (left) and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau each said that EI premiums had been higher under the other's government.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY IAN CAMPBELL

October 6, 2022

Some Canadians are paying slightly higher employment insurance premiums in nominal dollars than they were in 2015, while many others are seeing a reduction in the amount they pay out, because the amount of income subject to EI premiums has risen while the rate charged on that income has dropped. Th...

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