Well, we are aware of.... As I mentioned in my opening remarks, the self-employed are a very diverse group of people. There are indeed people like those you're talking about, who have lost their jobs and have then been hired back as consultants or on a contract basis for sometimes a fixed period of time and sometimes not. There are rules about deemed employment in those cases.
But there are also others, many of whom I've heard from, who say, “For heaven's sake, please don't bring in regular EI benefits for the self-employed, we don't want them--it's an insult”. It defies their very entrepreneurial nature. They are self-employed. When things don't go well, they work harder for their own success, and they don't want anybody taking that away from them. That's the reason they left the corporate world, for example. It was because they wanted that sense of self-reliance, to be their own self-motivators. They view obstacles not as obstacles but rather as challenges to be overcome and they say that having a regular EI system would undermine the very essence of who they are.