Well, there was a great deal of consultation. There are, within the medical community, different definitions of different conditions. As you may recall, the terms for compassionate care leave require that someone being taken care of—a friend or a family member—is expected to die within 26 weeks. That is a very dire circumstance, but what we wanted to do with this particular bill was make sure that parents could have access even if their child wasn't expected to die within 26 weeks.
We wanted to make sure that whatever criteria we put in place for eligibility encompassed those children who are facing critically ill diseases, where they need their parents present but where they may not be facing imminent death. There are young children with cancer, for example, who may be going through treatment, but fortunately their life expectancy is more than 26 weeks. We wanted to provide assistance to those parents, so we consulted the medical community.
There's a very long list of stakeholders, and I'd like to thank my parliamentary secretary for her expertise in this area. She raised several issues, and she consulted with the industry, along with others, to make sure that the terms we used, both in English and in French, which are very different, were appropriate to the circumstances and would provide the benefits to those parents we were trying to reach. Now, as a result, we've made sure that...a medical certificate is required for parents of critically ill children, and the terms of that are very specific. That was done in consultation with the medical community.