She said that if you knew you were going to be unemployed and you applied for your unemployment right away, that was your two-week period, the same as if you were waiting for your cheque.
Moving on, in your report you suggest that the EI benefits should be extended to self-employed workers. We see this, and we realize what you're saying. But one of the main problems, not only in Canada but in other countries as well, is that if someone was self-employed, we found that the business owners...because it's impossible to know if someone has actually laid themselves off. How do you propose--as I said, this is a problem facing lots of countries, not just Canada--that we overcome this problem, and what suggestion can you offer for this?