We did indeed submit the idea to the Liberal government.
Of course, we were mainly fighting for women who had lost their jobs after taking maternity or parental leave. As I said earlier, even the Social Security Tribunal reiterated, on January 10, that section 12(6) of the Employment Insurance Act infringed upon the right to equality guaranteed by section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The government is aware of the situation. At any rate, we spoke about the issue of stacking benefits.
Whatever the type of special benefits, as soon as a person receives regular benefits, section 12(6) becomes a problem. It is impossible to receive more than 50 weeks of benefits, any sort of benefit, even if a person is entitled to various types of benefits, because that can happen to workers who lose a job, become ill or have a child. We hope that all these things won't happen all at once, but sometimes it can.
If we manage to change the number of weeks of eligible benefits, we must absolutely avoid this being nullified by section 12(6) of the Employment Insurance Act.