It's true that under the employment insurance system there is a whole series of rules that allow people who are on claims to earn income and to be able to keep some of the benefit at the same time. As my colleague Mr. Groen has already explained, the Canada emergency response benefit is a very simplified form of income support. It had to be set up that way given the historic high volume of claims that came in at the beginning of the crisis. One of the consequences is that not all of the features of the unemployment insurance system could be replicated. That simply could not be done in time, and had we tried to do it, that would have meant that people would have had to wait a very long time to receive their benefits, which in a crisis situation was simply not acceptable.
So, we have not been able to reproduce the “working while on claim” rules under the Canada emergency response benefit, but there is in place right now the $1,000 exemption that allows people to earn up to that amount and still keep their benefit.
Thank you.