What we know is that women are taking time out to look after their children, or sometimes it's also taking time out to care for other dependent people in their family, which means they're out of the workplace. And if they've been out for a certain period of time, what you end up with is their having a higher entrance requirement again.
We're looking at this whole thing in terms of our women's economic equality agenda. It's connected to EI, but it's also connected to having child care. How can you go to work if there's no child care or no opportunities for those spaces?
I just want to go back to your opening comments, and I guess other comments. While we sit in rooms like this arguing about the best way to do it, nothing gets done for the unemployed. I want to say to people, “For God's sake, do something.” If you can do this bill, then that's a start, and then whatever your political careers are and whether you face unemployment or not, the reality is that the unemployed will actually be getting something from a program they pay into.
I'm sorry if I appear impatient, but if you ran into the people we run into across this country and in Quebec, who are absolutely devastated by short and long periods of unemployment, then maybe it would have more impact with people.