Right, thank you, Chair. That's in the package of amendments, of course, and it would make it very clear that we're capping the hours of work and ensuring that time off and holidays are available. In other words, if you're going to have these unpaid interns, why not make sure they have a 40-hour work week, an eight-hour day, and the same kind of regular time off and holidays as other workers? In this bill before us, the government simply fails to extend many of the basic protections to unpaid interns, as I've said over and over again. It seems to me that limits on the hours of work, and entitlement to time off and holidays are obviously necessary.
I'm going to say again, when we had our private member's bill, I called it the Andy Ferguson bill. I called it that because of this poor, unpaid intern, who fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into a tractor-trailer in Edmonton. After working back-to-back shifts, he was exhausted and didn't have any of the protections that our amendment would provide him. It would limit the number of hours unpaid interns can work to a maximum of eight hours a day, 40 hours a week, and give them 12 hours of rest between shifts—which this gentleman did not have—and give them access to the same breaks and meal periods as other employees have. It seems to me that that's just the way Canadians would do business, and it's shocking that people would resist those kinds of basic protections.