I'd be happy to, and I want to be very careful how I frame this. You raised this potential amendment with me before today, so this isn't coming as a surprise. I don't think my response will be a surprise either, because I've also raised my own personal concerns.
There are obviously lots of things that need to change within EI, and EI modernization has been ongoing for some time. This is close in scope in that it deals with bereavement.
My concern is that this is a private member's bill. Royal recommendations have only been allowed for private member's bills since 1994, and since that time, in the last 31 years, they have only been received three times. As well, given that we were able to achieve a line item in the index of the current budget specifically for the measures we have in this bill, I would be concerned about expanding the scope in any way—
