Harper government’s new jobs plan gives “firms an incentive to fire workers”

Published September 15, 2014

The Harper government’s new signature proposal timed for the return of Parliament on Monday “makes it weirdly profitable to fire people,” according to an independent analysis by an economist. Mike Moffatt of the Ivey School of Business at Western University analysed the proposed Small Business Job Credit aimed at companies that pay Employment Insurance premiums […]

Conservative minister says sorry for anecdote about drug-dealing EI recipients who need to get a real job

Published August 26, 2014

Denis Lebel’s tour of his home province of Quebec to drum up support for the Conservative government has hit a little snag. Stephen Harper’s Quebec lieutenant was in the middle of an interview with Radio-Canada over the weekend when he started talking about unemployed people who collect Employment Insurance. He was explaining that a farmer […]

Unemployed? Good luck getting EI as eligibility hits all-time low

Published August 25, 2014

Just 36.6% of unemployed workers are receiving Employment Insurance — an all-time low in Canada, according to the latest government statistics. The new milestone, calculated by comparing the number of regular EI beneficiaries in the latest Statistics Canada report with the number of unemployed workers from the Labour Force Survey, follows a series of policy […]

The pay-for-performance myth

Published July 25, 2014

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Just how low does Canadian Taxpayers Federation want to drive down EI eligibility?

Published July 8, 2014

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on the federal government to cut off even more unemployed workers from Employment Insurance benefits to solve Canada’s problems with the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. “Let’s clarify straight away what the debate surrounding the Temporary Foreign Worker Program is really about. This isn’t about Canada not having enough workers […]

Tag: Employment Insurance

Harper government’s new jobs plan gives “firms an incentive to fire workers”

Conservative minister says sorry for anecdote about drug-dealing EI recipients who need to get a real job

Unemployed? Good luck getting EI as eligibility hits all-time low

The pay-for-performance myth

Just how low does Canadian Taxpayers Federation want to drive down EI eligibility?