That was NOT my experience, after losing my
job with SNC just 15 weeks after
arriving in Montreal, Quebec and starting work with them.
The mess was caused by people in government, who should
have known better and used some common sense. But instead they just exploited
the “letter of the law” in order to
continually assert that I was “not eligible” for any
government-funded retraining and in most cases this was due to alleged “lack of
insurable weeks” of employment. That situation
involving “lack of insurable weeks”, in turn, was
precipitated by SNC dismissing me after just 15 weeks and that was less that
the 20-week minimum required of “new entrants to the
Canadian labour force”.
Nobody ever even told me anything about that “20 week
rule” before I left the U.K., either.