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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

Green

  • Lower the eligibility threshold for EI to 360 hours or 12 weeks
  • Extend maximum EI benefit periods to 50 weeks nationwide
  • Raise the EI replacement rate from 55% to 66.6% of previous earnings
  • Create an EI Emergency Response Fund for workers affected by disasters, economic downturns, or industry shutdowns
  • Set a minimum EI benefit of $450/week, increasing over time
  • Increase Maximum Insurable Earnings (MIE) to $94,000, aligning with Quebec's parental insurance plan
  • Establish EI Emergency Response Measures, ensuring automatic eligibility adjustments during national disasters
  • Provide immediate payouts for disaster-affected workers, waiving standard waiting periods
  • Expand the EI Work-Sharing Emergency Special Measure to prevent mass layoffs

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