‘When I needed it, I used it’: Green Party leader Elizabeth May says she was repeat EI user

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Author: Armina Ligaya

Green Party leader Elizabeth May objected Thursday to the Conservative government’s targeting of “repeat users” of the Employment Insurance system — because she was one herself.

Ms. May said that from 1975 to 1980, she received what was then called unemployment insurance during the off-season while working as a waitress and cook at her family’s restaurant and gift shop business in Cape Breton, she says.

Labelling regular users of EI, such as herself, as lazy or abusing the system is unfair, she said.

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