An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (benefit period increase for regional rate of unemployment)

This bill is from the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session, which ended in September 2008.

Sponsor

Yvon Godin  NDP

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

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Nov. 19, 2007
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment increases benefit periods under the Employment Insurance Act based on regional rates of unemployment.

Similar bills

C-233 (40th Parliament, 2nd Session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (benefit period increase for regional rate of unemployment)
C-233 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (benefit period increase for regional rate of unemployment)
C-233 (40th Parliament, 1st Session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (benefit period increase for regional rate of unemployment)
C-371 (38th Parliament, 1st Session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (benefit period increase for regional rate of unemployment)
C-481 (37th Parliament, 3rd Session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (benefit period increase for regional employment rate)

Elsewhere

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