Human Resources committee  No. In fact our members generally accept the basic tenets of employment insurance; that is, if somebody involuntarily loses their job, there should be a system of fair compensation for those circumstances, but I will say that with the growing shortage of labour that has been experienced in Canada right now, we have to be very cautious about making further changes to employment insurance.

Human Resources committee  No, I don't think this is the best way to reform employment insurance. In fact, as we outlined earlier, our concern is that the costs of this are going to make job creation and getting the economy back on track more difficult by adding additional costs to the system. The changes that were made in the January budget I think were more preferable and were ones that were more favourable to small firms, such as the extension of benefits for all workers, the changes to the work-sharing program.