Government Operations committee  There are four interim orders published under the regulatory authority, and we will forward those to the committee. They cover, for example, seasonal workers and [Technical difficulty—Editor].

Government Operations committee  We're running those specific numbers, Minister, but the evidence is that virtually all the individuals applying in the initial period have applied in the second period. I guess the key interaction that we can't give you right now is the interaction with the wage subsidy. As you

Government Operations committee  For us, it's 5,000 employees.

Government Operations committee  I think there are an additional 4,000 people. We can check that out and send the data to the committee.

Government Operations committee  Many of our employees chose to work overtime, but we didn't force people to do so. Many of them work in the call centres, but it also affects the employees who process requests, and the computer technicians. Many employees work all the time, but it's all on a voluntary basis.

Government Operations committee  We can try to calculate it, but we don't have that data right now. Our first goal was to get as many people as possible to handle this mind-boggling volume of calls. We put all kinds of people on it. We earmarked the money to do it, but we're going to do the math at the end of th

Government Operations committee  The speed of benefits isn't affected, but we do ask additional questions for people coming in on the EI side. The reason is that those people will ultimately transition back to employment insurance. We don't want to create a gap or require those people to come back in and reapply

Government Operations committee  No, I think you've covered it, Minister.

Public Accounts committee  There were 400,000 clients, with 140,000 finding jobs and 70,000 returning to school, but as the Auditor General indicated in his report, because we did point-in-time measurements, we are not able to give you data on the degree to which the employment was sustained. That's the

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I had over four happy years at Canadian Heritage. I believe in long tenure. I think it's critical to an organization, and although I don't—

Public Accounts committee  To be clear, they didn't say, “Let's just leave it the way it is.” There were two serious efforts made to update the formula, in 2003 and in 2014. As context for why that didn't succeed, let me give you two data points. The first is that between 1999 and 2016, Parliament voted f

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  In my experience, when new funding is injected into a program, that is the opportunity for the recipients and the political actors to be willing to consider changes in the allocation formula. Yes, we were going to do that anyway with the new money.

Public Accounts committee  We'd be happy to do that. As I say, we are also continuing to look at alternative sources, but that area of localized, highly accurate data is a tough nut to crack. We would be happy to indicate where we are after we've done the pilot with the four and we'd be happy to share that

Public Accounts committee  For example, $1,600 incremental income was achieved by those individuals in the program—