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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
TheStar.com – Canada – ‘Immoral’ treatment of migrants slammed: Give foreign workers permanent resident benefits, advocates urge
June 10, 2009. Nicholas Keung, IMMIGRATION REPORTER
Advocates for foreign workers are urging Ottawa to grant immigrant status to imported labourers on arrival to avoid exploitation and abuse by unscrupulous employers and job recruiters.
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
NationalPost.com – fpcomment – Why stimulus fails: Deficit-financed stimulus spending won’t bring recovery, but our children will still have to pay for it
Posted: June 09, 2009. By Niels Veldhuis
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – Corporate Canada’s enemy lurks within: A lack of innovation is to blame for our stagnant business environment. It’s time for the private sector to get creative
Jun. 08, 2009. Jim Stanford
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
TheStar.com – Opinion/letter – Tax system removes incentive to work
June 05, 2009
Re: PC candidate calls for end to welfare ‘lifestyle,’ June 4
Human beings are opportunistic, but they are also pragmatic. While it’s not politically correct to characterize some recipients of EI and welfare as having lapsed into a lifestyle of permanent social dependence, it happens. And it can become multi-generational.
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Editorial – The Grits’ mess
Published: Thursday, June 04, 2009
There is no doubt that Canada’s Employment Insurance program is long overdue for a drastic overhaul. But if the system is a mess, as Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and his caucus insist it is — to the point that they claim to be willing to force a federal election over their desired changes — it is a mess of the Liberals’ own making.
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
NationalPost.com – Full Comment – Liberal EI plan is built for Barney the dinosaur
Posted: June 03, 2009. Jack Mintz*
We know political silly season arrives when some of the worst ideas start getting serious attention. The latest is the Liberal proposal to reduce the qualification working period for Employment Insurance recipients to 360 hours before claiming 50 weeks of EI benefits (a recent extension by the Conservatives in the January 2009 budget).
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
TheStar.com – Opinion – Tories wield the deficit truncheon
June 02, 2009. Linda McQuaig
If only the unemployed weren’t so reckless with our money.
In predicting a $50 billion deficit last week, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty was quick to centre-stage the role of the unemployed and his other favourite whipping boy – the autoworkers – in soaking up government funds and pushing us deeper into debt.
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
TheStar.com – Opinion – Tories offer little to unemployed
May 26, 2009
As layoffs multiply, the clamour for making Employment Insurance (EI) more accessible keeps on rising. But the Conservative government in Ottawa demonstrated yesterday that it is not listening.
In layoff-ravaged Oshawa, Human Resources Minister Diane Finley announced some $500 million in support for long-tenured workers who have lost their jobs and are seeking to upgrade their skills.
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
TheStar.com – Canada – Ontario fails in plea for EI reform: Flaherty refuses to ease eligibility for payments but agrees to look into improving pension security
May 26, 2009. Les Whittington, OTTAWA BUREAU
MEECH LAKE, Que. – Ontario failed to shake the Harper government’s refusal to enrich employment insurance but made some progress on the growing problem of pension shortfalls for retirees, Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said after a federal-provincial meeting yesterday.
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Full Comment – Liberals’ EI plan too rich of a pitch
Posted: May 25, 2009. Don Martin, Canadian politics
It’s a generous nanny-state concept. Work just eight weeks anywhere in Canada and, if terminated, the Liberals want you to collect unemployment benefits for up to 50 weeks. Graduating students with a summer job that contributes to Employment Insurance, rejoice. Start work after exams, finish in the spring and by Labour Day, 360 work hours later, you qualify for pogey.
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