An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (benefits for illness, injury or quarantine)

This bill is from the 39th Parliament, 1st session, which ended in October 2007.

Sponsor

Mark Eyking  Liberal

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Dead, as of June 1, 2007
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment extends the maximum period for which benefits for illness, injury or quarantine may be paid from fifteen weeks to fifty weeks.

Similar bills

C-215 (current session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (illness, injury or quarantine)
C-265 (43rd Parliament, 2nd session) Émilie Sansfaçon Act
C-242 (43rd Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (illness, injury or quarantine)
C-242 (43rd Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (illness, injury or quarantine)
C-217 (43rd Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (illness, injury or quarantine)
C-291 (41st Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (waiting period and maximum special benefits)

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-278s:

C-278 (2022) Prevention of Government-imposed Vaccination Mandates Act
C-278 (2021) An Act to amend the Civil Air Navigation Services Commercialization Act
C-278 (2016) Foreign Lobbyist Transparency Act
C-278 (2011) Law Purple Day Act

Votes

April 25, 2007 Passed That Bill C-278, An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (benefits for illness, injury or quarantine), be concurred in at report stage.
Dec. 5, 2006 Passed That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities.

Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee, on Feb. 28, 2007

  • Kenneth Kyle, Director, Public Issues, Canadian Cancer Society
  • Manuel Arango, Assistant Director, Government Relations, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee, on March 1, 2007

  • Bill James, Director General, Employment Insurance Policy, Employment Programs Policy and Design Branch, Department of Human Resources and Social Development