There are situations where parents switch over to EI sickness benefits and then cease to access the benefits. It's because they don't want to explain to a stranger what happened to them. How individual parents grieve is so unbelievably unique and personal. The last thing you want, in that state, is to be dealing with any bureaucracy at all. As I stated previously, a number of resources are situated in the index of the budget—it's not yet passed, but it's there—specifically pointing to this measure.
As I was proposing the private member's bill, I was also just trying to.... How it passes doesn't really bother me; I just don't want it to be another 10 years that we're talking about this. I think there's a will, and given the two hours of debate, I think there's a way. It sounds like we might try to do some things with it and maybe try to expand it. That's at the will of the committee. I would just double down on my insistence that at least this part gets passed. We can all commit to ensuring that this passes and we can get the royal recommendation.
