Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for appearing today.
As you know, we're amending the Canada Labour Code to provide the 52 weeks of unpaid leave as well as the 35 weeks of benefits under the Employment Insurance Act for parents who are in these unfortunate situations.
Ms. MacEwen, you mentioned that you represent 3.3 million workers. Unfortunately, some of them would be going through some of these very situations we are talking about.
You mentioned 35 weeks. We can talk about coming up with an exact number, but 35 weeks would be an improvement over the previous compassionate care provisions. Can you speak to the situation some of your members are in and how accessing the 35 weeks of benefits would be beneficial in some of the scenarios workers you represent may be facing?