Thank you, Chair.
Minister Finley, your government seemed to be caught off guard by the increased number of claimants for EI. This is an issue I raised in the House on November 27, and I sent you a letter on December 19.
A couple of months later you announced that $60 million was going to be allocated to make sure that people had their EI claims processed. Maybe you can give us some information, if not here, then later, on the status of that $60 million--how you're hiring people, the process for hiring them. Does that need Treasury Board approval, has that been given, when was that given? Can we get some information on that?
The estimates seemed to indicate that EI administration costs are going to go down, and then the $60 million came in after the fact. I wonder if you could give us some information on that $60 million.