Human Resources committee  According to the latest available figures on the proportion of regular claimants who receive separation, it's just over 17%.

Human Resources committee  In that year, it was around 225,000.

Human Resources committee  It would be a different number, for sure.

Human Resources committee  Yes, the framework has four objectives. The first is to come to an agreement with the provinces and territories, which have significant responsibilities in this area, on a common set of principles that will serve to guide collaborative work on recognition of credentials. The

Human Resources committee  Well, one of the most significant issues would be the identification of these priority occupations. That would be the focal point for--

Human Resources committee  Sure. There would be collaborative work amongst the federal, provincial, and territorial governments on those core occupations, again with a view to expediting the recognition process, doing it in a common fashion, and increasingly, having it start before the immigrant arrives. T

Human Resources committee  Well, the framework to ministers is intended to identify the priority occupations, so that's what would guide the work after the fall. In September, coming out of this first ministers report, those would be the marching orders, if you will, for our officials to--

Human Resources committee  There probably will be one developed at the time. There will be commitments made in terms of the timelines around the work plan. I think that would have to await the nature of the framework before hard commitments could be made with respect to the individual steps.

Human Resources committee  I will jump in and then maybe turn it over to Mike. I was indeed at the Senate committee meeting that you referred to. The issue here, as I said, was that there was a base level of activity, and with the updating of the technical formula that Mike referred to, that same level o

Human Resources committee  Yes, it was a reattribution of where the costs occurred.

Human Resources committee  Which one do you mean--the $60 million incremental investment? That was approved through the Treasury Board.

Human Resources committee  I don't know. That's something that we'd have to--

Human Resources committee  There has been no reassessment of the cost associated with that measure at this point.

Human Resources committee  That was based on the unemployment projections at the time of the budget. There has been no reassessment. There is ongoing monitoring of the overall spending on EI and some of those figures.

Human Resources committee  Yes, it was.