So people don't personally put anything into UI? Weird. It's a bit of both here - some from the employer, some from the employee. Currently the employee pays 1.88% per cheque to EI with a max payment of about 913 bucks a year. I guess that wouldn't go over well down there. Evil taxes, etc.

No see, they don’t think maternity leave needs to be a thing. Women folk should just leave the job having to the mens (except teachering, nursing, and secretary jobs for those that haven’t yet found husbands) and should be home having/taking care of the babies. No need for maternity leave if you don’t have a job.

I don’t know what republicans want. They don’t want women to be able to have babies they don’t want woman to be able to avoid having babies.