Why the 50 weeks? There are two reasons, I guess. One is based on the two major illnesses that we have out there. It seems to take a year. Some of it goes a little longer, some a little shorter. A year is an average, whether you have to go through the chemotherapy process or you have to go through rehabilitation.
It also dovetails with where the whole EI program is on maternity leave. In that sort of vein, it takes a year for somebody to do things properly when you're dealing with a medical situation.
We've seen with the illnesses that are out there, that are serious enough, it takes around that, but this doesn't necessarily say they all have to take a year.
Right now I think there are about 300,000 who apply for that 15 weeks and there's only one-third who use the full 15 weeks. So it's the same thing.
When you're dealing with the major illnesses, it's about a year. If it's any more, then there's a tendency to go to the CPP. If you're going to be any more than a year, you have a pretty serious condition, so you'll probably end up going in the other direction.