Regarding that question, to be clear, people who have already applied to EI do not need to reapply. On application, they will not be processed and moved over to the Canada Revenue Agency for the payment of the benefit. It is Service Canada that will be paying all of the EI applicants and those who are eligible for EI. Those individuals will receive a flat $500 payment. We are in fact issuing those payments. We have started issuing those payments already.
For individuals who are qualified under the regular EI program for greater than $500, the period that they would be receiving the CERB benefit would not count against them in relation to their EI entitlements. If they were to receive the benefit for a period of 16 weeks, and if afterward they remain unemployed, they would be able to go onto the EI program and receive their full entitlement and not have those 16 weeks of payment count against them.