Human Resources committee  Perhaps I can answer that, because I think that was the point of the initial statement that I made. He absolutely would not put his stamp of approval as a chief actuary for the account. That's a very specific role, where he has statutory responsibilities. He provided advice, an

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Chair. I want to comment briefly on the material we provided you. We provided four pieces. The first piece is some detailed information on how we derived our projections. We're happy to answer any questions on that. I want to comment that we thought this was a signi

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. I just want to say that we—

Human Resources committee  Certainly with the maternity and parental, you're entitled to 50 weeks, while for sickness, it's 15 weeks, and for compassionate, six weeks, so yes, the costs per claim are generally higher for that.

Human Resources committee  I think the question you're asking is.... In the case of the current system and maternity and parental, we reduce Quebec's rate by equivalent to 90¢. Is that what you're saying? Or, we're compensating Quebec by a rate reduction of 90¢, so that, roughly, is an indication of how mu

Human Resources committee  What we've tried to do, where at all possible, is to mirror the system that's currently available. So yes indeed, for this issue, in terms of earning income while on claim, the same parameters have been set up. So in the case of maternity and parental, there is a certain threshol

Human Resources committee  Yes. If they both opt into the program and they both pay premiums, they can split the time.

Human Resources committee  We can send you information on gender analysis. Absolutely.

Human Resources committee  Part-time workers are completely eligible for this, but we do have—

Human Resources committee  As the minister pointed out, you can't use hours as the threshold—

Human Resources committee  I guess the question here is that you have to set up a threshold. This individual has to earn $6,000 over the course of one year. So this really is targeted for people who are earning a significant share of their income from this program and then would make a claim. There has to

Human Resources committee  I think you must have a threshold. The threshold that was chosen, the $6,000, was designed to be quite inclusive. Again, as the minister explained, we went from converting the 600 hours to trying to get a way to have an income threshold, the $6,000. So yes, some people will work

Human Resources committee  In all our policies, we analyze the impacts on gender as well as other things. As I just pointed out--

Human Resources committee  I think there's been a lot of analysis done on the impact of the employment insurance program on women. As I just indicated, I think the proof is in the statistics I just gave: that it's primarily women who are benefiting from the parental, the sickness, the compassionate—

Human Resources committee  We do have a threshold for this, as we have a threshold in the regular system.