Regional Equity in EI Access Long Overdue, according to C.D. Howe Institute Policy Analyst, Colin Busby
In Stop the Damage from Regionally Biased EI, (The Calgary Herald, March 23rd 2009), C.D. Howe Institute Policy Analyst, Colin Busby, finds that mounting job losses in previously booming areas, Ontario and Alberta, will cause many of the unemployed to fall into a less forgiving insurance net than those in Quebec and eastward. Busby maintains that policymakers ought to pursue an EI system that better supports economic stability, despite the inevitable expense, and recommends that Ottawa introduce uniform EI entrance requirements.
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