Thank you very much.
Our Conservative government is really quite empathetic and supportive of victims of crime, but there is something concerning in the bill here, my colleague, and it's the part where the bill states that a parent can take time off and receive EI benefits if their presence:
is required by the employee’s child under 18 years of age who has suffered a serious physical injury during the commission or as the direct result of a criminal offence that renders the child unable to carry on regular activities;
As we review this here, the question is, is it correct that if the minor, the child under 18, is injured during the commission of a criminal offence that they themselves committed, this bill would then provide that child's parent the ability to take time off work and collect EI to take care of that child? I'll give you a little example. If a 16-year-old falls down the stairs in the process of robbing someone's house and becomes temporarily disabled, it appears that this bill allows the parent of the child to stay at home and get paid through EI to care for them.
If that's the case, I don't think that's fair. Yet I'm not sure what you mean, and the legal words seem to suggest that. You need to deal with that because there is a very wrong impression given by the wording in that bill.