More Scandals - EI Surplus

Posted on Wednesday, February 18 at 15:05 by whelan costen
Still, one of Canada's oldest and most popular social programs is expected to take $3 billion more out of taxpayers' pockets than it needs to break even. Despite the surplus, thousands of workers - especially part-timers who tend to be women - are barred from drawing benefits by restrictions imposed in 1996.

Opposition MPs have fruitlessly pressured the Liberals to lower the 910 hours of work required in the previous year to qualify for EI.

Workers 'fleeced' by rates as EI surplus grows: critics

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  1. Thu Feb 19, 2004 8:31 pm
    If they\'ve been cutting premiums for the last ten years and we still have this huge surplus, it\'s fairly obvious they aren\'t paying out...as I\'m sure many unemployed can attest to...this makes me sick!!!

  2. Thu Feb 19, 2004 8:36 pm
    EI Surplus is but one cross we must bear for our Liberal overlords. Let also not forget about 1.2 billion in lost land claims in the same report.<p> Not to mention 11 years of waste and neglect. Boy, I wish I had 40 million people like me sending me 60% of everything I make so I could squader it like these guys do.<p> <p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain <br />"The greatest price of not participating in politics is being governed by your inferiors." Plato

  3. Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:23 pm
    Didn\'t Manley cut the cost by $0.10 before he flew the coop ? (Or something like that?)

    That should count for something !!

    Yeah, right !



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  4. Thu Feb 19, 2004 10:16 pm
    <i>That should count for something !! </i><p> Ok, then we'll only rip off an appendage and beat him over the head with the sticky end, instead of buying him more chain than he can swim with. Aren't we magnanimous? :P<p> I don't understand why they can't change the rules! I know I will never be able to collect what I've paid into it, so why keep paying? Canadians aren't that stupid or complacent, we see it as the undeclared tax that it is!<p> With the company I <a href='http://www.skyreach.ca/community.html'>work</a> (oooo! Personal info! Send out the black helicopters!) for being officially dissolved midnight tomorrow, I'm really considering becoming a private contractor and witholding all taxes from these theives.<p> <p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain <br />"The greatest price of not participating in politics is being governed by your inferiors." Plato

  5. Fri Feb 20, 2004 4:25 am
    Democracy Watch has started another writing campaign for Bill C-4, Ethics in Gov; go to their site, it is a great idea, and hopefully if the Bill gets passed, there will be transparency in gov, so we don\'t end up with these scandals in the future.

    Probably Susan will get the posting soon, I just received the action alert today from their website, I\'m on their mailing list...shit disturbers sign here!!

  6. Fri Feb 20, 2004 4:04 pm
    Linky linky???<p> I like to fling manure when I can :)<p> <p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain <br />"The greatest price of not participating in politics is being governed by your inferiors." Plato

  7. Fri Feb 20, 2004 4:57 pm
    See, here`s some money we can use to invest in health care!!! But the criminals in ottawa only listen to their American masters and have other plans.....

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    Dave Ruston

  8. Fri Feb 20, 2004 6:39 pm
    Sorry about that here is a link to Democracy Watch and the ethics info
    http://www.dwatch.ca/camp/RelsMay2303.html

    if you don\'t get the action letter from there let me know i\'ll email the article I got.

  9. Fri Feb 20, 2004 6:44 pm
    here is the more up to date link, with other links, the first one was from May, hope alot of people write,
    http://www.dwatch.ca/camp/RelsFeb1704.html

    ...C

  10. Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:08 pm
    Cool. Thanks!<p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain <br />"The greatest price of not participating in politics is being governed by your inferiors." Plato



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