Just to be clear, maternity and parental benefits are still a part of special benefits. I'm not sure that is an insurable risk in the same sense, and I'm not sure that we can handle that with special individual accounts. It would take time to build up these accounts, particularly early in your work history, probably when you are in the middle of family formation. That's why I suggest that maternal and parental benefits be hived out of this altogether and treated as a special program in the EI Act.
On February 23rd, 2021. See this statement in context.