Could I just make a point, sort of urging the committee to do something?
In preparing for today, I was looking for some statistical information. The major source of information on employment insurance is the annual assessment report that EI puts out, or the commission puts out. If you look at that and go through it, it's almost unbelievable how little information there is breaking it down by gender. There is almost nothing about the differences between men and women, the kinds of statistics we're talking about today.
I looked at CANSIM, which is StatsCan's database where you buy information. By the way, we have to pay for this information. I'm a small non-profit organization. It actually cost me about $400 to prepare for today's presentation to you, because you have to buy this information from StatsCan, even though we're taxpayers and everything. It's another thing I just wanted to flag to you.
One of the pieces of information I wanted to look at was the value of average benefits over time, just to see if they are going up, going down, or whatever, and then convert them to constant dollars. There is no breakdown by gender. There's just an overall figure. It's 2009, and we still have government information that is absolutely inadequate. It's unbelievable. I don't know how they get away with it.