The EI sickness benefit is probably the most flexible of the ones we're talking about, because it's focused on the short term. It probably has the least onerous medical assessment procedure, compared to the disability tax credit. It is certainly far less onerous than the Canada pension plan disability program. Its definitions are far more open that way.
In many ways, what I've been making a pitch for here this morning is that these are to benefit Canadians across a range of disabilities, not just specifically episodic. Where we see the episodic disability experience perhaps benefiting from these reforms is in more flexibility in being able to draw down the benefits: not just in a 15-week chunk of time, but to extend the benefit to 26 weeks, and extend the window of being able to access or draw down those benefits in more flexible chunks of time, over a longer period of time, to recognize that recurring or cyclical element.
It won't fit for everybody, because of the great diversity of episodic disabilities, but it will go some measure toward responding to the lived experience of a lot of people.