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Uproar Dept: But for many, the complex uproar over the Conservatives budget bill has been reduced to a single remark: There is no bad job, according to The Star. Conservatives haven t divulged how they plan to change the rules governing whether EI recipients can keep collecting benefits. Sources say the federal cabinet will be given the power to set new rules that will make it harder for those collecting EI to pass up jobs they deem unsuitable or too low-paying and oTTAWA It may be the most sweeping overhaul of Canadian law ever contemplated in one piece of legislation: 425 pages of dense legalese that amends or throws out more than 60 existing federal statutes. It came from Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, who was being pressured to explain the ongoing mystery of how the Conservatives will crack down on jobless people receiving Employment Insurance EI once Bill C-38 is passed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper s majority. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.