Thank you for the question.
I don't know the exact percentage of all EI claimants, but we're hitting around 95,000 right now with this one. I think we're at 300,000. I don't know where I got this figure. It was 300,000, so one-third is the medical part. That's the percentage.
When you talk about the abuse, we did our homework. We went to the office of HRSDC and we asked them what was coming in and out their door. They were so glad somebody was going to address this, because these people are coming back to them and they have to give them bad news.
They didn't seem to think there was abuse, especially with this one. They said guys are getting unemployment and they're babysitting somebody or there are all kinds of abuses out there, but not with the medical one, because you need the doctors. They know the doctors in the region. They know this doctor, whether he does hip replacements or whatever, so they know the community. They know the doctors and they know they're legitimate. They pretty well told us this is one of the few areas with the least amount of abuse because of that system, which carries it into where we're going, and it would be the same thing where you would get more specialists in there.
On checks and balances, I think there's no doubt you'd have to do a little more homework on this than somebody who has a broken ankle and was getting ten weeks. You would probably have to have a revisitation; maybe a cancer specialist would come and do a reassessment. I think that would be pertinent, so whoever's doing the claim would say they needed a 40-week checkup, to come in and say they're almost cured, they need one more radiation treatment.
So I think you would need a little more documentation from the doctors or specialists as you went along. I think that should be put in there, which would make sense.