Mr. Mark Perlman at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

With the EI account, initially what was happening is that charges related to the EI emergency response benefit were coming out of the EI account, just because of the way our systems were laid out. But there was an announcement made by the government to reimburse the EI account for the impacts of the EI ERB, so it will be held harmless. Any amounts that were used for that particular purpose will be reimbursed.