You are all directors. I just wanted to know whether people in more senior positions could speak French and communicate with people in French. I was just wondering about that.
Earlier, if I am not mistaken, we talked about the 75% amount allocated to an individual who receives a disability award of 100%. That person would receive 75% of the gross amount they were making at the time of the incident. Earlier, Ms. Sgro said that the 75% plus the lump sum payment of $260,000 added up to a lot of money.
I did a few quick calculations. Over a period of 40 years—in the case of a 25-year-old receiving the pension until the age of 65—$260,000 works out to $542 a month. So that means $542 a month plus a pension. If that person was making $40,000 a year, they would receive a gross amount equivalent to 75% of that, in other words, $30,000, which is subject to source deductions, leaving the person with around $21,000. If you add $6,500 to that—I did another calculation using the monthly amount to get the total annual amount—it comes out to approximately $27,000 a year.
So the person who received a disability award of 100% gets $27,000 a year; that is all. If they have two children and a house payment, how can they live on $27,000 a year?