Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Shillington. It's very good to see you here again and very good to benefit from your number crunching.
We're here talking about numbers and percentages and how many people access a program and who is excluded, but we haven't talked about the social impact. Ultimately—and you referred to this—the employment insurance, or in the old days the unemployment insurance, program was intended to meet a societal need. I'd like to discuss that societal need, in terms of that program being there for a purpose.
In connection, first of all, with older women—I don't think there has been much discussion today about older women—many of them will lose their jobs in this economic downturn and they will struggle financially. Will the current employment insurance program accommodate the needs of these older women workers? What do we need to do to prevent these women from falling into despair and destitution?