With the EI proposal, which I think is very appropriate for the discussion today, we talk about more flexible sickness benefits that would allow people to actually work part time when they're able to, but still receive partial benefits. The way we would calculate that is that there probably would not be a significant cost to that as well. People would be allowed to work, so they would receive partial benefits. They would receive less than they ordinarily would on sickness benefits.
So depending upon how the program was structured, it actually could be, in terms of impact, fairly neutral. There would be a cost of some small amount--I don't have that figure right in front of me--in terms of allowing spouses to claim the caregiver amount as well as allowing people to make the disability tax credit a refundable benefit.
But in terms of the output of having people with a minimum amount of income actually receive that income, and having that put back into the economy, I think it would actually be a stimulus, a support to that.