Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for appearing before us today.
Ms. Hamill, thank you for sharing your very personal and tragic story. You have my sincere condolences.
I'm a parent and grandparent. I can't even begin to imagine the pain that someone goes through when they lose a child and then have to fight or go through the bureaucratic process. In many ways, I share my colleague's comments—we need to do better. We're hoping that with the passage of this bill, this is exactly what we're going to be doing.
There is no question that more training is needed. I used to be in the finance industry, and I used to lead teams of 200 people or so. Dealing with finances is not always a very high emotional IQ area because you're dealing with people's wealth. One thing I made sure of was that the people I was leading had the adequate training they needed to deal with such sensitive issues, to be more human and to be very mindful of the questions that were being asked at the appropriate time.
You have my sincere apologies that you had to experience that. I apologize to any parent who has had a similar experience. We're hoping that with this bill we're going to do better.
Based on your experience, do you feel that the amount of leave proposed in this bill would provide parents with meaningful time to process their loss, or do you think additional flexibility might be needed?