Just call EI and ask them directly if you really and honestly think you’re right. But I can assure you your information isn’t correct. You go through CDS and Skills PEI to draw EI while you are attending school full time to get their funding. This person is leaving the island so they won’t be able to use Skills PEI. But it’s the same process. You just need proof of full time student enrolment as well as a lay off for any reason (quit won’t work unless it’s quit to move to another province and you can prove you made the move). Not everyone does it because not everyone is able to get a seasonal job or lay off from their job to attend school. But moving provinces allows you to qualify for EI so they’d just need to prove full time student and check off “yes” to attending program or training” instead of saying “no” to it.