Senator Eggleton and Senator Segal, as you know, the government has taken some action on a couple of these, two of them in fact, which is very interesting. One is the EI special benefits for the self-employed in Bill C-56, as you know, and then the extra weeks of benefit for the long-tenured workers in Bill C-50, both from last fall.
We know through the budgets and estimates what the costs are. At least we're getting some sense of that. In addition, the department, HRSDC, has given us at various times costs for our estimates on some proposed forms of some of these EI recommendations you have. Those costs could run, depending on who you ask, into the billions of dollars each year.