Thank you for the question.
I will go over some of the successes of the wage earner protection program. Since its inception, the WEPP has issued $89.5 million in payments to just over 40,000 applicants. Of these applicants, an average of 57% is currently getting the maximum payment of $3,400. As I said earlier, for those who don't, it may be the because they've received money from other sources and that sort of thing.
There is a current plan to expand the program. Budget 2011 announced the Government of Canada's intention to expand WEPP to cover workers who lose their jobs as a result of the restructuring of a company rather than a bankruptcy.