If you make other assumptions about what percentages of those 135,000 would use how many extra weeks, you can come up with different calibrations. That's why my best guesstimate is between $50 million and $100 million. That's partly based on the fact that when other programs, such as the compassionate care benefit and others, were rolled out, the government's official target estimates tended to be larger than what the actual program obligations were for the subsequent rollout of the programs, so the officials were cautious and estimating high costs. The actual rollouts tended to be lower. It's harder take-up, awareness, applications, etc. So these programs tend to roll out not as high as some. Again, this would be the work of the officials to do.
On December 4th, 2018. See this statement in context.