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Trudeau announces $1B fund to respond to COVID-19
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics…
"Federal government will waive 1-week wait for employment insurance, fund research"
Bearded Trudeau for the win!
- makes up a little for the billions he lost mishandling the rail protestsGnash
- ^ Fairideaist
- Rail mishap? sending in the army + police surveillance + retaliation would have cost just as much if not more. I hate the guy but I wouldn't call thatzarkonite
- mishandling. We're dealing with people who feel disrespected and want more payouts. Stomping on them wouldn't help.zarkonite
- that 1 week should be at least 2.********
- This will be $1B squandered with no quantifiable results.ben_
- I think waiving the 1-week EI waiting period will help keep some peeps homeGnash
- it will, but does that somehow "cost" anything?ben_
- The gov’t pays those ei benefits, not the employerGnash
- But you’re right that it’s a very small part of that 1 billionGnash
- Yeah they pay it out of money we pay into it. The one week wait period is horseshit. I get it though, something is better than nothing.ben_
- how about self employed workers?Salarrue
- Self employed workers pay into EI. or at least they are supposed to by law. If they didn't, let's hope they squirrelled away something?ben_
- Self-e’s don’t pay into EI, they pay more in cpp though.Gnash
- (Although the feds added a voluntary EI option for Self-e’s a few years back - I’m sure it sucks)Gnash
- Yeah, you still have the option eh? it's been a while since i was SE. The benefits are the same, they absolutely suck.ben_
- But yeah for SE's who didn't pay into it, then what can they expect... it kind of sucks we pay into it for years yet can't use it when we need it in thoseben_
- circumstances. I've never cashed in on EI but have paid thousands and thousands into it... wish someone in need could access it.ben_