Human Resources committee  If we look at regular benefits alone for 360 hours, it's in the range of $1 billion. That's consistent with some past estimates that were provided within the last few years, adjusted for volumes for the current size of the labour force.

Human Resources committee  I appreciate the opportunity to address the committee today on the employment insurance program and the policy changes that were introduced in recent years, particularly since 2012. As noted, I'm joined by Benoît Long, my colleague from Service Canada, the senior assistant deput

Human Resources committee  Yes, my colleague does.

Human Resources committee  You're speaking to a document that aggregates the spending of quite a large number of programs together. I think it's important to unpack that to look at the evolution of different—

Human Resources committee  There are a number of programs within the skilled trades area that the department is very active on. There's the apprenticeship loan program, which was rolled out recently. It is a new program to provide a loan for those individuals who are in an apprenticeship program. That's on

Human Resources committee  I'm not able to disaggregate it here, but we could certainly unpack that aggregate number and show you the component parts of that.

Human Resources committee  I could certainly elaborate on that. As was indicated, this was an extension to a previous exemption that was put in place to deal particularly with the low-wage stream of the program and the challenges faced particularly by seasonal industries. It was available last year and wa

Human Resources committee  We are indeed. An additional element is the government's decision to post the names of non-compliant employers where there has been a revocation of the labour market impact assessment. That's been implemented, and there are employer names that are now attached to that list.

Human Resources committee  Well, I have the spending figures—

Human Resources committee  Is it in our supplementary estimates for the previous fiscal year? Do you want to speak to that, Alain?

Human Resources committee  There's been a gradual expansion over the years of the authorities of our enforcement personnel with respect to the temporary foreign worker program. There's now an expanded authority with respect to conducting on-site visits and authority to compel documents, and there's a broad

Human Resources committee  The amount that Alain referred to out of last year's estimate was a global amount. I don't have the specific portion that was attached to compliance. It's one of two main capacities. There's the capacity to actually conduct the labour market impact assessment and then the complia

Human Resources committee  Just to speak to the other two examples as part of the policy changes announced by the government last June, there was a general prohibition on low-wage temporary foreign workers in certain occupations in the accommodation and food services sector and retail sector. There was a

Human Resources committee  I'll just make a couple of comments. First of all, we're still very much in a transition with respect to the caregiver program, implementing some very significant changes. I think the processing results we're seeing are very much a reflection of the transition and a pretty signif

Human Resources committee  They're not in line with the new requirements of the program.