We have, actually, and one of the things I hear pretty consistently from my stakeholders is that 15 weeks is not enough for EI sickness benefits. As I referenced earlier, a caregiver can now have 26 weeks while the person whom they are looking after only has 15 weeks, so there's a kind of disconnect there. Perhaps that was an unintended consequence when that change was made, because the 26 weeks over the 52 weeks was very well received by people who needed to have that.
I think we really have to look at sickness benefits. I've heard as well from multiple organizations such as, for example, the Canadian Cancer Society, the Multiple Sclerosis Society, and the Canadian Diabetes Association, where there are episodic illnesses. People don't need that time all at once, but they may need more time throughout the year than the 15 weeks, or throughout a two-year period or whatever it may be, because they do want to go back to work, and they should be going back to work. That often helps them in their illness in many ways, so that's one area that has to be looked at.
I think there's an opportunity here to look at the overall sickness benefits and all of the benefits that are related to sickness benefits, including PCIC, which is for the parents of critically ill children. That also comes into play there. There are also the CCB or the compassionate care benefit, regular benefits, and the sickness benefits.
As I said, I think there's a real opportunity to look at that and to make it work for everybody.