An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act and the Canada Labour Code (extension of benefit period for adoptive parents)

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

Sponsor

Catherine Bell  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 Feb. 15, 2008
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Employment Insurance Act and the Canada Labour Code to ensure that an adoptive parent is entitled to the same number of weeks of leave as the biological mother of a new-born child.

Similar bills

C-413 (40th Parliament, 3rd session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act and the Canada Labour Code (extension of benefit period for adoptive parents)
C-413 (40th Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act and the Canada Labour Code (extension of benefit period for adoptive parents)

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.

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C-509 (2013) An Act to amend the Navigable Waters Protection Act (Goldstream River)
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C-509 (2004) Housing Bill of Rights