Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Beech, thank you for introducing Bill C‑222.
Conservatives believe that this is an important and necessary protection for parents and families. Grieving parents shouldn't have an additional burden of needing to fight bureaucracy to access the benefits to which they're entitled.
Mr. Beech, thank you for presenting this bill. I haven't had a chance to speak to it in the House yet. As the Conservative shadow minister leading our response on this, I want to assure you very much of our support for the principle. I see it as building on work that has been done by my colleague Blake Richards and others to take important steps forward to help families. I know the debate that happened at second reading was very meaningful and very heartfelt.
I wonder if you can start by sharing a bit about the work that's been done on this issue in the past, in particular with motion 110 from the 42nd Parliament. I believe there was a study at this committee that came out of that motion, and many people spoke to it at the time. I wish we could have acted sooner, frankly. I wish we'd seen action on this in an earlier Parliament, but can you speak to motion 110 and some of the issues emerging from it?