Yes, this is an issue that the labour movement has been working on for years. There was actually an NDP private member's bill, I think in 2013, that was meant to address this issue.
All that needs to happen—it's a fairly straightforward change—is to allow people to use those hours that they've accumulated for both types of leave, and it's majorly for women. Women are still the ones who take the majority of leave, even though it's growing a bit. Women take around 35 to 40 weeks of leave when they welcome a new child, and men are taking around 10.
It's a gendered issue when women lose their employment. It's a little different in Quebec, because QPIP works differently, but in the rest of Canada, if you lose your employment before, during or after your parental leave, you probably won't be able to get regular benefits. We find that to be a discriminatory loophole in how this has been set up. If we were to change it to allow people to take both of those benefits, that would really make a big difference for about 3,000 women every year who run into this issue.