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I'm a pediatric surgeon, and I guess the one thing that I think this piece of legislation is doing is trying to make sure that both moms and dads have an opportunity to spend time with their families.
One of the individuals who presented earlier made the comment that you need to be able to make decisions quickly when your children are in these circumstances. Part of making those decisions quickly is both parents standing in the room being able to make them together. I think it's important to recognize that dads are just as important as moms in all of these scenarios. This is about families, and families being together, and making sure we can facilitate that. Moms and dads make these decisions together every day, and these are tough decisions to make. As I said, the intent behind this legislation is to make sure that families are together.
We also had a number of witnesses comment last week about how there is an opportunity in small businesses. These small businesses really try to take care of their employees as family.
I guess I have two questions to begin with. The first is, in your organizations, what are the things that you do to support families, over and above these types of things that we hear about happening in communities and that small businesses are doing for their employees?
Also, what are some examples of families that you know of in your organization, or that you've been in touch with, that will benefit from these changes...whether it be the stacking components or whether it be the critically ill, murdered, or missing children benefits? Do you have some specific examples?
What have you seen being done out there? We want to make sure that we're highlighting what great Canadians are doing.