With regard to the five additional weeks versus the two week period, the situation was analyzed based on the unemployment data Madam Charette mentioned earlier. The analysis revealed that the duration of benefits was posing a problem, so it was decided that it would be extended by five weeks to address that.
It's important to note that on....
Je vais parler en anglais, à cause des termes techniques.
The two-week waiting period is not necessarily related to the duration of benefits. For someone who uses his or her entire entitlement, it simply moves the entitlement two weeks earlier, and it would end two weeks earlier.