Mr. Paul Thompson (Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Skills and Employment Branch, Department of Human Resources and Social Development Canada) at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

Sure.

There are provisions elsewhere in the act to ensure that the CRF is an automatic backstop. Since these are statutory benefits, the CRF will be used as the immediate recourse to pay benefits. The clauses around the advance are to essentially formalize the use of the CRF and the terms and conditions around that use. So the CRF is essentially an automatic backstop for the payment of these statutory benefits.