Certainly I and my counterparts at other unions have tried to do that sort of analysis. One of the challenges is that the administrative data required is within HRSDC, and it hasn't been made public, for the most part. I appreciate that department officials have been before this committee, so perhaps they have shed some further light on the numbers, but essentially my best effort to shed some light on them through the available Statistics Canada data is included in the table I passed around, which provides at least some indication of the number of EI claims filed both before and after January 4.
On October 8th, 2009. See this statement in context.