Thank you, Chair.
Mr. Corak, I really appreciated your discussion around even caring for sick loved ones. Something the NDP has been advocating for years is to increase, because we never know what can happen in life, the EI sickness benefit permanently from 15 weeks to 50 weeks. This idea actually also received support at this committee in a 2016 study on EI, especially for individuals undergoing cancer treatment, for example.
I bring this up as well because we are now in a pandemic. We know that people have gotten very sick during the pandemic. We don't know what that will look like for them, going forward, in terms of healing and being able to return to work. Is this a measure that you would support?