Louise Chabot Bloc
Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)
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. 5, 2024
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This is from the published bill.
This enactment amends the Employment Insurance Act to, among other things
(a) increase the 2023 maximum yearly insurable earnings by 40 %;
(b) establish a hybrid criterion for receiving benefits that consists of hours or weeks of work and consequently eliminate the system of major and minor attachment claimants and the concept of a waiting period;
(c) allow an extension of the qualifying period for a person who is unavailable for work because of a parental leave;
(d) increase the maximum number of weeks for which benefits may be paid in a benefit period by replacing the table in Schedule I;
(e) eliminate the combined weeks of benefits rule, which limits the total number of weeks of benefits to 50 when a person is entitled to both regular and special benefits;
(f) increase the maximum number of weeks for which benefits may be paid in a benefit period because of illness, injury or quarantine from 26 weeks to 50 weeks;
(g) provide that a claimant’s weekly insurable earnings are equal to their insurable earnings in the period of 12 consecutive or non-consecutive weeks for which they received the highest insurable earnings;
(h) increase the rate of weekly earnings that must be paid to a claimant from 55 % to 60 %;
(i) entitle to benefits a person who is unable to work because of domestic violence, an obligation to assume parental responsibilities or a return to education; and
(j) establish the Employment Insurance Fund, to be administered by the Canada Employment Insurance Commission.
The Act also contains transitional provisions and makes a consequential amendment to the Department of Employment and Social Development Act .
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.
Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-418s:
Louise Chabot Bloc Thérèse-De Blainville, QC
Mr. Speaker, with Bill C‑418, the Bloc Québécois is taking action where the Liberals have failed since 2015.
We are proposing a single eligibility criterion of 420 hours or 12 weeks of 14 hours, enhancing benefits from 50% to 60%, increasing the minimum entitlement period to 35 weeks, increasing the special EI sickness benefits to 50 weeks, and the list goes on. In short, we are proposing real reform.
Will the Liberals support it?