Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Vermaeten, at the current time there is a major controversy regarding the waiting period and the additional five weeks of employment insurance benefits. Before the decision was made to provide an additional five weeks, I would imagine that your department did a study of the impact of such a change to determine exactly how much money it would cost to do away with the waiting period and add the additional five weeks. And I would imagine that you looked at the number of people who could benefit from the additional five weeks. Were any such impact studies done?