"We have telephones, you know. And post offices."

Yes they do. So why have 50 federal employees been assigned to knock on EI recipients’ doors to hand deliver requests to appear at regular EI interviews?

In an email to CP, Human Resources Development Canada confirmed the intimidation visits saying they are "An examination to ensure the integrity of the Employment Insurance program is currently underway."

Uh-huh. Maybe HRDC can just hire those vile people insurance companies use to discourage people from making legitimate claims on policies they have paid into for years.
The federal government has begun visiting Employment Insurance recipients at home as part of an "examination" being conducted while the program undergoes an overhaul. About 1,200 recipients are receiving invitations, in person, to appear at their customary EI interviews.

Quite obviously, these intimidation tactics visits are meant to make recipients of their rightful insurance feel intimidated, feel like criminals, feel as though they are so irresponsible (because paying into EI for years is just that) that they need to be monitored like delinquent trouble makers.

..."It's abusive," said Alma Breau-Thibodeau, of the Employment Insurance Action Committee In Defence of Workers. "They're abusing us like crazy. We all feel targeted by this law. . . You know it's gone too far when you're being checked upon at home. We have telephones, you know. And post offices."

HRDC is also putting their staff in an uncomfortable, potentially dangerous situation. Remember the federal census taker found hanged in Kentucky with the word “fed” scrawled across his chest? 

"Even though he was with the Census Bureau, sometimes people can view someone with any government agency as 'the government.' I just was afraid that he might meet the wrong character along the way up there," Acciardo said.

NDP MP Yvon Godin, warned the government to stop the house calls — which he described as "intimidation." He said people are angry and in no mood for a visit from the feds. "I wouldn't recommend for representatives of the government to go knocking on doors right now. It's dangerous," Godin said.