An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (benefit period increase)

This bill is from the 40th Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in December 2009.

Sponsor

Carol Hughes  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. 2, 2009
(This bill did not become law.)

Similar bills

C-281 (40th Parliament, 3rd session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (benefit period increase)
C-365 (39th Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (benefit period increase)
C-365 (39th Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (benefit period increase)

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-281s:

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