I will wait until everyone has the amendment, and then I will explain.
This will be the only amendment we put forward. As I said earlier, the purpose of the amendment is to add clarity. In our view, it is in keeping with the intent of the bill.
On line 19 of clause 1, on page 1, the sentence ends as follows: “where the person was employed.” In order to make it clearer, the period should be replaced by a comma followed by the addition of “provided that, for the purposes of determining the weekly rate of benefits, the qualifying period is established retrospectively to the fifty-two weeks preceding the beginning of the dispute.”
That way, the bill would indicate the date when the extension in question begins.