Thank you, Mr. Lévesque.
Earlier, I talked about the reconciliation commission. Related to that are two significant support programs. The first is called
the common experience payment.
It is a payment to each individual who attended a residential school.
I can get you more recent data. What I have now is that we're very well advanced. About 98,000 applications came in for CEP. We've processed almost 94,000 of them. Some people are not eligible, and most are. We've dealt with over 73,000 payments. Over $1.5 billion has gone out under the common experience payment. We've given people the benefit of the doubt when documentation was incomplete and paid out for what we could demonstrate. So we still have about 10,000 cases in reconsideration, trying to fill in the gaps and deal with any issues. There is an appeal process for people who are not happy with those outcomes. So we're very well advanced on the common experience payment.
The other process that's available is for people who have claims of serious physical or sexual abuse. This is an independent assessment process. There's a set of adjudicators who deal with those and make payments. We're well into that and reporting to the courts on their implementation. My numbers are that about 7,000 claims have come in, and there were about 2,000 that carried over from before the settlement agreement. We've resolved over 2,000 of them. About 1,000 are in the process right now. Over the next three or four years we hope to deal with all of those. We can't be absolutely sure how many claims will come forward, because people still have some time to bring claims forward.