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Employment Insurance platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.
We don't have any Liberal policies on Employment Insurance.
We don't have any Conservative policies on Employment Insurance.

Bloc
  • Modifier les critères d’accès à l’assurance-emploi pour les chômeurs dont la perte d’emploi est directement liée au conflit commercial international
  • Exiger que le fédéral éponge la dette de pandémie de la caisse d’assurance-emploi
  • Déposer une réforme de l’assurance-emploi, qui en facilitera énormément l’accès et qui en bonifiera les prestations

NDP
  • Reduce the threshold for qualifying for EI to a universal 360-hour standard
  • Extend the duration of EI benefits to 50 weeks
  • Provide a minimum weekly benefit of $450

    "[...] and increasing the benefit level and insurable earnings cap to provide a minimum weekly benefit of $450." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

We don't have any Green policies on Employment Insurance.

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