1. Persons who cannot avail themselves of the Regulation respecting certain transitional measures relating to the calculation of average insurable earnings and to the earnings threshold for the purposes of parental insurance (chapter A-29.011, r. 4), who prove to the satisfaction of the Minister of Employment and Social Solidarity that they would have been entitled to a higher aggregate amount of benefits under the Employment Insurance Act (S. C. 1996, c. 23) or its regulations, may apply to the Minister to have their benefits increased by any amount necessary to enable them to receive the equivalent of the aggregate amount of benefits to which they would have been entitled under the Employment Insurance Plan.