With regard to employment insurance, the additional five weeks is a really interesting step forward. We are aware that all this will have an impact on some of our workers in the Gaspé and on the North Shore. I am thinking, for example, of the workers in the shrimp industry. We had the opportunity to talk to them about it.
However, the advertised criteria may have a limiting factor. To access the additional five weeks, the person must have made at least three regular EI claims in the past five years, and benefits must have been granted on the basis of a type of seasonal unemployment for at least two of these claims. We find that access to government support is a lot to ask of young workers in this industry. To be eligible for these additional five weeks, a person must have three unemployment experiences in the last five years, including two seasonal experiences. This will really help older workers in the industry, but younger workers may be left behind.
For the moment, that's what we can see with this program. Of course, this has been announced recently.
As for your second question, you wanted to know if financial assistance for steel was down to the ground. I don't know anything about that. I don't know what the situation is with aluminum either. From what we've seen in the newspapers, there doesn't seem to be much demand for this money at the moment, but I don't know any more.