Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Patry, I am going to start with you. You haven't been in high demand today.
I want to start with the issue of employment insurance. You know as well as I do that, in 2012, the government introduced EI reforms. I am from eastern Quebec, where the economy is largely dependent on seasonal jobs, and those reforms have hit us quite hard.
How do you measure the consequences of the EI reforms? When the government is asked that question in the House, its answer is that, at the end of the day, access to EI has not been reduced and that people still have access to EI, as was the case before.