Human Resources committee  In terms of the three benefits to date, we've seen now more than 1.7 million Canadians make use of the Canada recovery benefit, about 300,000 who have made use of the recovery sickness benefit, and I believe a slightly higher number—not in front of me right now—who have used the

Human Resources committee  I should be able to get that within a few minutes. I don't have that right in front of me at the moment.

Human Resources committee  The CRB is not coming from the EI account. It is coming from the consolidated revenue fund. I actually have the numbers here now.

Finance committee  Just to echo what we heard from the parliamentary secretary earlier, we are continuing to review the programs and are looking to make adjustments as required. One of the other things that's really important to recall with the Canada emergency response benefit is that it respond

Finance committee  Perhaps I can take the first question, which related to the eligibility for the Canada emergency response benefit with respect to students. You gave the example of a student who has been regularly working for their summers and who would have been starting to work on April 20, I b

Finance committee  I can't say that where we'll be going for students.... I can certainly say that the government has been working on other sorts of supports for students and for young people. In terms of the extension that was announced yesterday for seasonal workers who have recently exhausted th

Finance committee  I'd just say that, at this stage, we are very much in the early days. We're collecting a lot of volume metrics right now, in terms of the number of claims we're seeing for the CERB, and CRA is collecting similar data. It will take us a little bit of time to start the analysis of

Human Resources committee  I would absolutely agree with that. One way, as you mentioned, is to take a look at the number of hours, but that helps to qualify only the people who are already in some kind of insurable employment. We need to also take a look at those workers who are not in insurable employmen

Human Resources committee  Thank you for the question. Concerning the employment insurance program, the bottom line is that a number of measures are in place to monitor the program's coverage. The Statistics Canada investigation on employment insurance coverage is important, as it helps see the evolution

Human Resources committee  In general, to have access to the program, people need to have insurable employment, which is not the case for self-employed workers. That is why they do not have access to the program. The same goes for many individuals with non-standard jobs.

Human Resources committee  I guess it's very broad in terms of being able to access it right now, regardless of the condition. I think the question is, what is the duration that would be available to workers? As the duration increases, costs increase. The other thing to remember is that EI is based on the

Human Resources committee  I think there's an awful lot that can be done within the program, which is separate from certainly what I've heard around the committee this morning, the call for broader reform. It's important to keep that in mind, because often changes within the program could be brought about

Human Resources committee  Maybe just to respond to that—and it may be a bit on Kris's program there—it's not that you're dying, but it's severe and prolonged in terms of the disability. In terms of EI we're absolutely at the opposite end of the spectrum in the sense that it's very easy—provided you have

Human Resources committee  I think about two main considerations. One is really with respect to employers. An important thing when we think about the EI program is not just the worker but the employers, and the two are funding this program. If we are creating a benefit that could be paid on a weekly basis,

Human Resources committee  A tremendous change would be required to manage taking benefits on a daily basis as opposed to a weekly basis. That would be so for a lot of reasons. From an internal perspective, internal to more the Service Canada side of things, we would see an increase in the individual numbe