Mr. Speaker, studies have shown that the utilization of unemployment insurance benefits is very hard to forecast. The reason is that institutions tend to exploit the opportunities. For example, we know institutions developed in Atlantic Canada that allowed workers to work for exactly 12 weeks in order to qualify for benefits and then the next batch came in to work for 12 weeks. This is how the cost increased.
I wonder whether the Department of Human Resources Development has looked at the possibility of similar institutional developments coming forward in the context of now making part-time workers eligible.