On Jul. 16, CAN GVT revised employment insurance regulations.
CAN GVT published approval in official gazette to amend the end date of the temporary upward adjustment to unemployment rates under Pilot Project No. 24 to Oct. 11, 2025
Follows CAN GVT Jul. 10, 2025 adjustment, extension of regional rates, see #248074.
Background
In response to the threat and introduction of foreign tariffs, Employment Insurance (EI) Pilot Project No. 24 introduced three temporary measures to test the outcomes.
Outcomes of applying such measures to respond to the employment impacts. o
While the other measures end on October 11, 2025, the measure adjusting EI unemployment rates upward was set to end on July 12, but tariff situation persists.
While expected job losses are lower than those originally anticipated at the start of Pilot Project No. 24 earlier this year, negative impacts on the economy have begun.
Amendment
Regulations Amending the Employment Insurance Regulations (the Regulations).
Re temporary upward adjustment to unemployment rates under Pilot Program No. 24 (SOR/2025-115); amend the end date of the temporary upward adjustmen5.
Extends the measure by three months from Jul. 12, 2025 until October 11, 2025.
Extension responds to economic uncertainty caused by imposition of foreign tariffs.
Effectiveness
Amendment comes into force on the day on which it is registered, so Jul. 16, 2025.
Regulators
CAN GVT
Entity Types
Corp
Reference
OG Part II Vol. 159 No. 15, 7/16/2025; SOR/2025-115, 3/23/2025;
