Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Senator, thank you very much for coming today, and thank you very much for your tremendous leadership on this issue—to you and the others who have been working for many years to get us where we are today.
I am pleased to say it looks as if we have all-party support to get this bill moving forward, and I think that's a credit to everybody around the table. I'm sure when we've finished with it in the House of Commons, the Senate will work with haste as well in getting this done.
Do you have any idea, Senator, from your experience, how many families so far have had to simply quit their jobs, and in many cases because they have quit their jobs, they would not be eligible for EI benefits? Do you have any idea, when this bill is passed, how many families this is likely to help support, who currently would get no support whatsoever if they had to resign from a job and would have no EI income? Do we have any idea of how many families we're talking about?