Thank you for your question.
I spent 180 days studying French.
To be precise, I'll have to answer in English.
Maybe we'll be able to speak in French afterward.
To answer your question, it is unfortunate that if you were to follow the trajectory of the current rules and you're a parent who did this perfectly, you would go through the following experience. You would have some difficult circumstance. You would receive awful news. Under the current system, you would be expected to contact Service Canada immediately because you no longer qualify for your parental benefits. You would have the option—the option exists—for you to switch to EI sickness benefits. If you did that, you would receive access to similar financial compensation, but you would be within a system that is designed for someone seeking employment. You would be calling a service desk and talking to a new person, whoever happens to be picking up the phone that day, every couple of weeks, potentially, to justify your current situation.
It's also important to share with the committee that the average experience for a parent is different. It's personalized. Some people just want to go back to work. Other people need time. Often it depends on the type of work they're doing. If they're working with children every day, they might have a much different circumstance than if they're working with their hands, as an example. This takes care of all of those situations, and it doesn't make it perfect—my colleague has talked about the wraparound services that are required—but it makes it significantly better at no significant increase in cost.