Finance committee  As I said, the government made an announcement and, again, I'll get back to the committee with a specific date. Yes, once that legislation is introduced and passed, we will be able to deny claims retroactively to that date.

Finance committee  I can't speak to the specifics of whether or not people who were on leisure travel applied, because it was not information that we were collecting at the outset of the benefit. That has been pointed out, and the government has essentially announced that it's going to take measu

Finance committee  Legislation can be introduced quickly; however, I understand that there continues to be negotiations of the terms of that legislation.

Finance committee  The government has announced that this ability will not be respected, going back to.... I don't remember the exact date. I think it's some time in January. That means that when the legislation is in fact introduced and passed, we will have the ability to deny those claims.

Finance committee  I can. The sickness benefit, as you know, came out of the conversation with the provinces under the safe restart agreement. The concern expressed at the time was that once the CERB had wound down, there were going to be Canadians who wouldn't have access to paid sick leave. With

Finance committee  On the approval, I'm going to have to defer to my colleagues at the Canada Revenue Agency. In terms of access, we have heard that some people are concerned, and certainly the one-week application period has come up. When you apply for the benefit, you have to attest effectively

Finance committee  Certainly we saw significant job losses, as well as people whose jobs were restricted, early on in the pandemic. When thinking about the CERB, we have to keep in mind that it was really three benefits rolled into one. It was a classic unemployment benefit, which was extended bo

Finance committee  CERB was delivered by both Service Canada and the Canada Revenue Agency. We worked very closely together to use the best information available to us. We know, of course, that CERB was based on an attestation basis. That was a very deliberate choice that was made at the outset t

Human Resources committee  Certainly. We've taken a number of steps to ensure that employers and workers have some certainty in a very uncertain time. That includes extending the duration of labour market impact assessments that the deputy just referred to. Those have been extended from six months to nine

Human Resources committee  It is not.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I can certainly respond to that question. Thank you, honourable member, for the question. We are working actively to get those funds out and running. We expect to make an announcement in the coming weeks. Certainly it's taken us longer than we would have wi

Human Resources committee  We're looking to train up a significant number of new personal support workers, as well as to get some better-quality training materials for them.

Human Resources committee  We are still finalizing those numbers. As I say, we hope to be making an announcement in the very near future.

Human Resources committee  That information will certainly be part of the announcement, because we want to be sure that people who are interested in the training are going to be able to have access to it.

Finance committee  Good afternoon. I think, as we have stated before this committee in the past, the provisions of the supplemental unemployment benefit program that exist under the employment insurance system do not exist for the Canada emergency response benefit. Having said that, there is an ex