Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Let me first make up for something I forgot, and thank each one of you for contributing to our committee’s work.
Mr. Stapleton, Mr. Prince, I agree with you that, if there were a guaranteed minimum income, we would be asking all these questions very differently.
I would like to go back to the longer sickness benefit payments that could result if the calculation were by day of episodic disability, not by week. Along the same lines, we talked earlier about employment insurance. Those figures are based on the fact that 60% of those who contribute to the employment insurance fund are not eligible for benefits. Another obstacle to the eligibility, which also applies to people with episodic disabilities, is that prerequisite of a 40% reduction in income. If we do an analysis by gender, we see that, right off the bat, 34% of women and 52% of men are ineligible for benefits. So, in my opinion, we first have to solve the eligibility problem. What is your opinion?