Thank you, Mr. Chair.
There are several questions I would like to ask.
On the survey you did, concluding that people were stepping back from employment in favour of being on EI, it seems to me a very qualitative kind of study to be doing. I would be very interested in receiving that, because I'm not sure you can assess. You can count numbers, but I don't know how you do that in a qualitative kind of way.
I'd be interested to know what that is based on. What did you look at when you looked at that? Did you look at age? Did you look at skill level? Did you look at gender, geography, etc.? That's the first part of my question.
Because it was an aside to know where parental benefits ought to be, if they're not under EI, I'd be curious to know what your suggestion would be as to where parental benefits should be.
The question about training.... You have this in your action alert. I'm not sure how you would decide what percentage of training dollars individual employers would get because they are training for very different kinds of things.
I would also be interested to add my last part of that. You have a statement here that says “Review cost-effectiveness of existing EI programs”, and I'm curious as to how you would go about that.