I want him to feel good.
I want to congratulate you for the bill.
Hats off to you, because this is a good thing.
The same thing happened to me in my office. I am thinking of whoever makes the best case.
How do you answer a person? I find it tough, because someone gives you a call and says, “Look, I didn't break my legs or my arm and in two months or in 15 weeks I can go back to work. I have cancer, and I'm probably going to die. I am alone, I'm not married, and if I cannot get my EI for more than 15 weeks, that means I'm going to be on welfare at $468 a month.” What do you tell that person? He's a worker who may have worked 15 or 20 years.
And sometimes I hear the government—the previous government or this one—say that people abuse EI and people just want to get on EI.
I'd like to raise a question for the witnesses, especially since we have key witnesses here. Do you think a person who has a stroke will abuse the system if he needs a year or six months to come back? Do you think a person with cancer who needs chemotherapy will abuse the system? Do you think we will be making a good gesture if this Parliament agrees and doesn't ask for a royal recommendation? I'm worried about it, because they talk about money, and they think it belongs to the Queen in England, but it belongs here and it belongs to the worker.
I'd like to have your comments on that.