EI administrative malfunction: an urgent need for simplicity

Canada's employment insurance program is far too complicated for claimants and employers, and far too complex to administer.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland delivers last year's budget on April 7, 2022. By not maintaining simplified rules adopted in COVID for Canada's employment insurance program, the federal government has unwittingly helped to create the mess we are in now, writes Pierre Laliberté. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY PIERRE LALIBERTE

February 20, 2023

A couple of weeks ago, Statistics Canada signalled that last November we had witnessed the lowest number of employment insurance recipients in 25 years. Yet, at the same time, thousands of Canadians are experiencing waits that are almost unheard of in the annals of EI histor...

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