Human Resources committee  As a self-funded program...yes.

Human Resources committee  The reason there isn't a number is that the way Parliament designed the benefit wasn't just looking at the 2019 tax income to determine eligibility. People could also use the first three months of the year, so it could be any 12 consecutive months. That's what's taking CRA time

Human Resources committee  In December, we had already done the work required to add the extra weeks of benefits to the bilI. With your approval, we'd be able to implement it by March 19 However, for any additional changes, a choice would have to be made between the measures earmarked for the month of Sep

Human Resources committee  Let me start, and then I'll throw it over to Cliff. Just to give members a sense of this, we've been working since December, anticipating that the committee may decide to extend the number of weeks of benefits. Given the nature of the COBOL-based system we have, it will take a f

Human Resources committee  I'd like to add a comment, Minister. Making policy changes gives us hope, but the limitations of the system also need to be factored in. As Ms. Young mentioned, the regulatory process that established the employment insurance system we have today is now 49 years old, I believe.

Human Resources committee  The minister's intention, with the announcement in the fall economic update,—and, Benoît, you may want to come in on this—is not only to increase the number of jobs from 80,000 to 120,000 for the coming year, in recognition of the fact that we fear the scarring from the crisis ma

Human Resources committee  I don't have an update on the specifics. It's obviously the minister's prerogative to determine when ultimately it would be announced. As you indicated, she has been working with the Minister of Health on this, who is the lead on the strategy. I don't have specific details to o

Human Resources committee  I appreciate that the committee has benefited from the speed with which the department has been able to deliver some of these benefits. I would just caution that this pace for every new measure that was announced in the Speech from the Throne, which is quite expansive in terms of

Human Resources committee  Yes. The initial run was automatically generated by the system because we didn't ask anyone to apply. For everyone in the DTC, who already had a certificate in the system—everyone who was a recipient of CPP/QPP in the system and everyone who had a Veteran's Affairs benefit—all of

Human Resources committee  [Inaudible—Editor] almost immediately.

Human Resources committee  I think Minister Qualtrough, if she were here, would say that she would hope there are a great number of people who come forward and rush to do that. We have provided merely an estimate, but obviously if additional people beyond that estimate come forward and qualify, they would

Human Resources committee  Mark, I believe the answer is yes?

Human Resources committee  The WE Charity Foundation returned all of the monies that had been advanced to it. What you're seeing in the estimates is a closing out of that amount. We had initially booked the amount you cited in the estimates and as that is not going to be spent, this amount in the estimates

Human Resources committee  No. We are removing that item from the request. As these estimates would be approved, we would eliminate that amount we had originally asked for.

Human Resources committee  Employers are required to do labour market assessments in order to get their certificates. They pay fees for those labour market assessments. As you can imagine, there were individuals who had paid for the labour market assessment, but now because of the crisis they determined th