Human Resources committee  It's hard to pinpoint a date at which work on a measure begins, because it's an evolution and you arrive at a finished product on the date of tabling the legislation.

Human Resources committee  As my colleague explained, some people have exhausted their benefits even after nine months. If this period was extended, the implementation of the measures would become more and more complicated because there would be more and more beneficiaries who have already exhausted their—

Human Resources committee  They must be advised by letter that their status has expired. Perhaps then another kind of program would be used at the provincial level. The longer the period, the more complicated things get.

Human Resources committee  Yes, that's right. One thing that we cannot do is to divide the projections over the 19 months that the measures will last. It is difficult to do this without a projection of the unemployment rate for each region etc. However, it is true that we now have a list that gives the na

Human Resources committee  Yes. For example, beneficiaries in Quebec province received 24% of the letters, which corresponds to 23% of the labour market. The distribution of these letters is proportional to—

Human Resources committee  Yes, the distribution is made in proportion to—

Human Resources committee  And those seven years can take place over 10 years.

Human Resources committee  That's correct.

Human Resources committee  People who have worked six years would continue to receive the five weeks under the EAP and—

Human Resources committee  I'm saying that after six years you'd be entitled to the existing five weeks. The people with seven years or more get five weeks and then an additional three weeks for each year on top of that.

Human Resources committee  And if you work eight years, you qualify for three more; nine years, three more. It extends. There are distinctions—

Human Resources committee  The requirement is to have paid a minimum of 30% of the EI premiums for seven of the last 10 years, which allows for up to three years of absence without paying the premiums.

Human Resources committee  The difference between the three years, the difference between the seven and the 10, is intended to accommodate absences from the labour market, including time spent on parental leave, where premiums would not be paid. The period of employment would still be seven years out of th

Human Resources committee  In coming up with the definition of seven out of 10 years, one of the primary motivations behind that was to allow for absences from the labour market. So that would have been motivated by some gender analysis of how women versus men might access this measure. That's one example,

Human Resources committee  There was analysis done--