Minister of Defence Jason Kenney takes part in a press conference in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, April 27, 2015. A backlog in processing employment insurance claims that the government has yet to clear may have partially been a result of its own two-year-old budget cuts, a recently released document suggests.A two-year-old briefing note to then-employment minister Kenney outlines how federal budget cuts in 2013 made it more difficult to process EI claims and send either a payment or a denial letter within about a month of receiving an application.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick