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{
"time": "2024-12-03 11:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Wayne Long (Saint John\u2014Rothesay, Lib.)",
"fr": "M. Wayne Long (Saint John\u2014Rothesay, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8785883\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you, Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8785884\" data-originallang=\"en\">Good morning to my colleagues and thank you to our witness.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8785885\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to talk to you about the additional weeks of employment insurance for seasonal workers in targeted regions. The 13 regions are Newfoundland and Labrador, eastern Nova Scotia, western Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Madawaska-Charlotte, Restigouche-Albert, Gasp\u00e9sie-\u00celes-de-la-Madeleine, lower Saint Lawrence and north shore, central Quebec, Chicoutimi-Jonqui\u00e8re, northwestern Quebec, and Yukon. Obviously, if you're a seasonal worker, you can claim five weeks and up to nine weeks, depending on the conditions.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8785886\" data-originallang=\"en\">Do you think a lower number of hours to qualify for EI should be implemented? What would that number be?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8785883\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8785884\" data-originallang=\"en\">Bonjour, chers coll\u00e8gues, et merci \u00e0 notre t\u00e9moin. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8785885\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je veux vous parler des semaines d'assurance-emploi suppl\u00e9mentaires pour les travailleurs saisonniers dans les r\u00e9gions cibl\u00e9es. Les 13 r\u00e9gions sont Terre\u2011Neuve\u2011et\u2011Labrador, l'Est de la Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse, l'Ouest de la Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse, l'\u00cele\u2011du\u2011Prince\u2011\u00c9douard, Charlottetown, Madawaska-Charlotte, Restigouche-Albert, Gasp\u00e9sie-\u00celes-de-la-Madeleine, le Bas-Saint-Laurent et la Rive-Nord, le Centre\u2011du\u2011Qu\u00e9bec, Chicoutimi-Jonqui\u00e8re, le Nord-Ouest du Qu\u00e9bec et le Yukon. \u00c9videmment, si vous \u00eates travailleur saisonnier, vous pouvez r\u00e9clamer cinq semaines et jusqu'\u00e0 neuf semaines, selon les conditions. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8785886\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pensez-vous que l'on devrait mettre en \u0153uvre un nombre d'heures inf\u00e9rieur pour \u00eatre admissible \u00e0 l'assurance-emploi? Quel devrait \u00eatre ce nombre?</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/human-resources/44-1/139/wayne-long-1/",
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"source_id": "13035876",
"document_url": "/committees/human-resources/44-1/139/",
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}