Thank you.
I'm going to take this opportunity, not to ask you about the four weeks of sick leave, but rather to ask you about the special sickness benefits, which are part of the employment insurance program.
It deals with special benefits, which for 50 years have been 15 weeks. I don't need to explain the problem any more, because I'm sure that every one of us knows someone, whether a constituent or relative, who has come to their office to say that after 15 weeks, the benefits stopped, even though that person was suffering from a chronic illness or cancer. I have lots of examples. It was chaos every time, because it was hopeless. We know that 15 weeks isn't enough. A motion was passed to increase the maximum duration of special sickness benefits to 50 weeks.
Are you working to make this 50-week period possible?