Human Resources committee  I do think so. All I meant was that if you wanted to get into the particularities—it's a very complex system on the employment or income benefit side, as you know—then you would need an expert in part 1 of the EI Act if you want to be properly advised. There'll be no disagreement

Human Resources committee  I want to respectfully say that we came here to talk about the employability of older workers and seasonal workers. I'm a director general of active employment measures. I'm not an expert on EI part I or the particular program rules and the specificity in individual situations of

Human Resources committee  I'm not an expert in EI part 1, but I am familiar with the reasons why the Government of Canada decided to waive the two-week waiting period. I do believe it to be associated with the risk to health for people staying in the workplace when it would be better for them to stay home

Human Resources committee  The number you were looking for can be found in the monitoring and assessment report. It's $18.513 billion for the contributions, total premiums paid. It's $2.1 billion for active measures.

Human Resources committee  For training. Now, the only caution I'll make on that is that the data for contributions comes from CCRA, so it lags a little bit. That data I gave you is from 2003.

Human Resources committee  About 10% would be your number. It's in and around 10% of the premiums paid.

Human Resources committee  If you will just give me a minute, I'll give you the actual statistic. I know that $2.1 billion a year is spent on active employment measures.

Human Resources committee  It's by comparison with the total revenues that are collected with premiums. I'm not an expert on the premium side, so I need to find that number.

Human Resources committee  I would suggest that the situation with SARS was a very specific and very rare occurrence. It was judged to be a national medical emergency. And the people in question were not yet sick, but it was feared that they might be sick as a result of contact with SARS, and so in an effo