Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses, the ministers.
Minister Finley, you threw out a couple of numbers that I found just shocking in terms of the numbers of parents who would be eligible for these kinds of benefits. You mentioned as many as a thousand for murdered or missing children and as many as 6,000 for parents of critically ill children, but for me, coming from a place like Newfoundland and Labrador, that number of a thousand for murdered or missing children is just shocking. On the 6,000 for those who are critically ill, I can relate more to that, because everywhere, unfortunately, we have critically ill children.
The whole time you were speaking, I was thinking about adults with elderly parents, adults whose parents are critically ill. I know that this bill, the Helping Families in Need Act, is specifically for parents of critically ill children. When you talk about families, I also think about adults with critically ill parents.
Will there come a time when we can extend this? Or is it possible to extend this type of benefit for an adult with a critically ill parent?