Proposition 22: Employment Insurance

This is one of the worse questions of the bunch in that the VAST majority of people probably have no idea what is even required to qualify for Employment Insurance. Even just a list of the simplest stipulations of the program would help voters decide whether they think it should be easier.

Since what I would actually prefer is that everybody could qualify for employment insurance (a basic income, if you will), obviously I think it should be much easier, but I also spent about 6 months on EI about 4-5 years ago now. Having a work contract end and no job lined up immediately after, I was one of the ones who easily *qualified* for EI, but one of the worst aspects of the program is that any money you make while on EI needs to be reported, and you get correspondingly less from EI as you start to make money.

This is incredibly annoying because it literally gives you no incentive to work at all unless you’re making more money than the maximum you’re eligible for under EI, which when you’re trying to pick up work part time here and there, I can tell you is always less.

Summary: All in all, this question is missing a lot of information, especially for a commonly misunderstood program like EI.

Table of Contents

• Making the CBC Vote Compass even better
• Proposition 1: First-time home buyers (FTHBs)
• Proposition 2: Handguns
• Proposition 3: Child Care
• Proposition 4: Health Care
• Proposition 5: Basic Income
• Proposition 6: Quebec Separatism
• Proposition 7: Unions
• Proposition 8: Climate Change
• Proposition 9: Reconciliation
• Proposition 10: Quebec Separatism (2)
• Proposition 11: Equalization Payments
• Proposition 12: Trans Pronoun Rights
• Proposition 13: Corporate Taxes
• Proposition 14: Abortion Services
• Proposition 15: Supervised Injection Sites
• Proposition 16: Oil and Gas Subsidies
• Proposition 17: Asylum Claims
• Proposition 18: Defecit Reduction
• Proposition 19: Immigration
• Proposition 20: Military Spending
• Proposition 21: Single-Use Plastics
• Proposition 22: Employment Insurance
• Proposition 23: Violence Against Indigenous Women
• Proposition 24: Wealth Tax
• Proposition 25: Gender-Balanced Cabinet
• Proposition 26: Pharmacare
• Proposition 27: Monarchy
• Proposition 28: Foreign Policy on Human Rights
• Proposition 29: Carbon Tax
• Proposition 30: Religious Minorities
• Propositions 31 & 32 (QOTD): Religious Symbols Ban
• Ways to Improve the CBC Vote Compass (Conclusion)