Finance committee  Will do.

Finance committee  According to the Employment Insurance Monitoring and Assessment Report, the number of seasonal claimants in Canada in 2019 and 2020 was approximately 410,000.

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. The pilot project was launched in August 2018 and ended in September 2021. The results will be analyzed and evaluated by the department and released later in 2022.

Finance committee  That's right. We have no information to provide on this for the time being.

Finance committee  The 13 regions were selected on the basis of two criteria. The first was unemployment rate. We looked at the rates of unemployment in each region and any regions whose rate was higher than the national average met the first criterion. The second criterion was the percentage of seasonal workers in each region.

Finance committee  Good afternoon, my name is Sylvain Noël, and I work at the Department of Employment and Social Development. According to our end‑of‑January estimate, approximately 17,300 individuals took advantage of the measure. As to your second question, the royal assent date will have no effect on those who benefit from the measure.