Certains de mes collègues et moi travaillons aussi avec un autre groupe, l'Association canadienne des restaurateurs et des services alimentaires, sur l'idée d'une exemption de base de l'année (EBA) au titre de l'assurance emploi. L'idée serait qu'employeurs et employés ne paient pas de cotisations sur la première tranche de 2 000 $ ou 3 000 $.
But I and other colleagues have been working with another group, the Canadian food and restaurant association, on this concept of the yearly basic exemption with respect to EI. In other words, of the first, let's say, $2,000 or $3,000, employers and employees would not be paying the EI. The argument there is that, especially in the food and restaurant business, there are a lot of students who come and go, and it would remove that deterrent for business to hire people like that.