Mr. Hawn, thank you for your excellent presentation based on your personal experience. You know the situation very well, and you have clearly shown that by telling us about your own career.
In previous testimony, the question of the cost of this initiative came up. The witness told us that he could not explain the cost of putting the bill into effect, calculated at $6.2 billion.
Have you looked at that? Can you give us more details about it?
As well, it has been said many times that members of the Canadian Forces and the RCMP have paid into an employment insurance program all their lives that they have never benefited from. One of the proposals put forward was to postpone those contributions to the age of 65. That could help to even out the measures proposed in this bill.
I would be interested in your views on that.