Thank you very much.
The first kind of leave you mentioned, for murdered children and for missing children—104 weeks and 52 weeks—is modelled after the Quebec legislation. Simply put, we wanted to make sure we had as generous a program as was there. We wanted to make sure that we weren't any less generous than the province that offered the best provincial leave in Canada.
The policy rationale for 104 weeks is based upon the notion that it will take 104 weeks for a parent to grieve, for a parent to go through the process if there is a criminal case, if they have to go to trial, if they have to go to court. Senator Boisvenu has spoken very eloquently about the struggles he had during the time when he went through something like this. Parents also, as I indicated, may need time to attend judicial proceedings, and those can take a considerable period of time. So that's for the murdered children.
In the case of the 52 weeks' unpaid leave for missing children, that gives people time to search for their child and to deal with the psychological shock as well, which I would imagine is quite devastating.
Leave for parents of critically ill children is 37 weeks, to match up with the benefit of 35 weeks available in the program.