Our country faces massive unemployment not seen in many of our lifetimes. Covid-19 has laid bare the inadequacy of our existing employment insurance system. As a result, Canada had to create a whole new suite of emergency programs, such as the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) to fill the gaps in Employment Insurance.

Joel Laforest traces the history of EI, and how successive Liberal and Conservative governments have eroded these supporters and restricted their access, and argues if we want to live in a viable society, we need to build systems that will protect us from an increasingly uncertain world.

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