Without getting into a massive backstory...

In Canada I believe that if you have 7 calendar days in a row without earnings it qualifies as an interruption of earnings and you are laid off. They need to issue a record of employment within (I think) 10 calendar days of the day of interruption.
My legal question would be "Is there any way I can take them to court for damages or have them fined because they took too long to issue the RoE?" It would be important to note that I emailed the office manager and then EI Canada also issued an official request and it still took them much too long.

Another question I have is is Alberta or Canada a 1 party consent for recording a conversation? I recorded a few conversations between myself and the manager. Meaning if it was 1 party consent since I was party to the conversation it would imply that I knew I was recording the conversation and the conversations were not taking place in a location where you would expect reasonable privacy ie in a closed door situation. Don't know whether that matters or not. The main reason I am asking this is because I am still providing information to the EI rep deciding whether or not I quit or there was a lack of work and I think some of the conversations would be pertinent to the investigation but I do not want to use something I obtained illegally.

Furthermore, one of the main reasons I am in this predicament is because the company would not lay me off when things got slow, they just cut my hours down to 10-15 per week and then rejected my request for a lay off because they are on some sort of federal funding and can not lay employees off without repercussions. How can I go about getting someone to help me look into that? I did tell them I would be available to continue to work even if I was laid off.

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Thanks in advance for any advice I get!