This is the one NDP amendment on unpaid interns that I have some concerns about, Mr. Chair.
Prohibiting any benefit to employers, depending on how that's defined, concerns me somewhat because I think that with unpaid interns, there is often, and I would expect in the majority of cases, significant benefit to employers. I agree, though, that for unpaid interns the focus should be on the experience for the interns.
I'll just ask Mr. Rankin this first. He had mentioned some provinces that have this, but does he understand a concern of somebody who broadly supports the other amendments but believes this may be defined too stringently in some ways?