Thank you very much.
Thanks for your presentation.
Throughout today what we've been hearing about are law-abiding citizens, the victims, the offenders. What we heard from the previous witnesses was basically the fact that if there's an inequity in the system right now, why not fix it to bring people up, as opposed to reducing access to employment insurance, which would actually create a civil penalty. I agree with that.
My concern as I'm hearing what's been going on today is.... I'm just trying to get some sense of this. If someone is held in remand--and maybe you'd be able to clarify that for me--and then gets sentenced and is found guilty, from the time they're being held in remand, they wouldn't be able to apply for that extension. However, if someone is not held in remand and is waiting for their court date, and then gets sentenced, they won't be able to ask for that extension there, but there will be some discriminatory practices based on the fact that it depends on what the length of time is. You indicated that if they go back to work for a certain period of time they would be able to apply for their EI after that. So if they work a little bit more after, they would be able to go back on that claim.
I'm looking at the remand part, because you will have people who are held in remand and people who are not in remand. At the end of the day, both of these people may be found guilty or not guilty, but if they're found guilty, the person who is in remand will get a longer period of civil penalty, I guess we would call it.