Human Resources Minister Diane Finley

Government Dept: Officials from her department are holding a technical briefing ahead of her "important announcement" at 10:30 a.m. ET in Ottawa, according to CBC. The government has said it wants to remove disincentives to working that it says are built into the system, but Finley has been tight-lipped on how the government will do that and has only promised that the changes would be announced "soon." Human Resources Minister Diane Finley is expected to put an end to speculation about the government's planned changes to employment insurance when she holds a news conference Thursday morning. It is likely that Finley will provide details on how the Conservatives plan to reform EI, a plan that was broadly laid out in the March budget, but was short on specifics. Bill C-38, the budget implementation bill that is currently making its way through Parliament, gives cabinet the authority to change EI qualification criteria through regulations instead of legislation but the government hasn't yet said how it intends to change, for example, the definitions of "suitable work" or "reasonable efforts" to find employment. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.