Human Resources committee  No, and I would like to give you a more elaborate answer.

Human Resources committee  We will do it in writing, but let us continue anyway.

Human Resources committee  We must make a distinction. You said that there were 780,000 people—

Human Resources committee  These people, on the average, do not receive benefits for a year. The average period of time is more generally 20 or 30 weeks. They do not stay as long. For every unemployed person, there are about 2.5 to 2.6 clients in any given year—

Human Resources committee  Let us suppose that on the average during one year, there are about 780,000 unemployed people for the entire year. Given the fact that the claimants do not receive benefits during the full year, there would be 2.5 different claimants.

Human Resources committee  This is why there is a greater number of people who are affected.

Human Resources committee  As we said, people who are eligible for these measures are all those who have filed an employment insurance claim after January 4.

Human Resources committee  The bill provides for a longer period of benefits that takes into account the extra benefits. We should verify whether the reception of severance pay would extend the period of benefits. Generally, people have a maximum of 104 weeks to claim their benefits.

Human Resources committee  Yes, I will have to send you some information about the interaction between these two factors.

Human Resources committee  We are relying on the old figures. We did not adjust them because it was very difficult to find out what proportion of long-tenured workers would exhaust their benefits. As for the people who are eligible for five weeks, we have already granted them more than four by now. We supp

Human Resources committee  It's a minimum of seven.

Human Resources committee  Seven years of contribution.

Human Resources committee  The information that we have shows how many people we sent letters to. Thus, we have some information and we can obtain the distribution for this group of people. We began sending out letters which were actually meant to implement the employment transition initiative. In this cas

Human Resources committee  We do not necessarily use the number of unemployed people. We take into account the number of beneficiaries who—

Human Resources committee  Currently, 1.6 million people are unemployed.