Thank you, Mr. Chair.
If we're talking about clause 2, I just want to remind everyone of an element of the bill we introduced, but that isn't taken up here. We'd previously proposed a bill to increase to 50 the number of weeks of EI sickness benefits, the Émilie Sansfaçon bill. We feel it's important to remember that, when it comes to an illness or the loss of a child, you can't predict how long it'll take to heal.
So we're going to adopt it, but I just want to remind everyone that it's important to think about the 50 weeks, because no one knows how long it can take to heal after cancer or the loss of a child. The witnesses we heard from did say it varies a great deal.