So then, this means that for each unemployed worker, I will have different claimants more than once. Basically, I have 2.5 clients for each unemployed worker. If, on an annual basis, I had 500,000 unemployed workers, taking into account the number of claimants, I would multiply 500,000 by 2.5, which would give me, if I'm not mistaken, about 1.3 million claimants for the year. The information that we have on file represents the number of different clients over the course of one year. That explains why the base is much larger than the actual number of unemployed workers. As I said, the number of claimants for 2009 is 1.9 million. We estimate that all of these claimants will have received at least one week of EI benefits during 2009.
On October 27th, 2009. See this statement in context.