Workers want flexibility. This is what workers want. They want flexibility. Some of the previous speakers mentioned that there is some preference among workers to take on more non-standard forms of employment, which tend to be more precarious, because they want that flexibility. They also want that flexibility in terms of the ability to access parental benefits and the length for which they access parental benefits.
The study that you mentioned cites a number of examples, often drawing from the Quebec program for maternity and paternity benefits, which is much different because they've designed their own set of rules that are much easier to qualify for and much more generous in terms of what they pay for than the rules of employment insurance for mothers and fathers in the rest of Canada. I think there's really a lot to be said about that, because to qualify for EI and maternity/paternity benefits in all parts of Canada outside of Quebec one has to have a very significant commitment to the labour force. If you're in a part-time job, you might not even qualify. In Quebec they say, if you've worked 100 hours or so in the last year, they want you in; they want you to be part of it; they think you deserve paternal and maternal benefits. It's a very different design. It's something that the federal government should look more closely at.