We don't have anybody specifically from EI here, but I will try to answer your question generally.
Currently, EI benefits provide a year off in terms of maternity and parental leave for women and their husbands with children. That's been going on for a few years now. Right now, the question of whether or not the government intends to expand that, or otherwise, would have to be addressed to the minister. Certainly with respect to, for example, protection of jobs, and so on, all of the provinces have taken on and made sure that when a woman does come back to a federally and provincially regulated job, the job is held for them.
With respect to the issue of movement in the ranks and seniority claims during maternity leave, that's up to the individual employer, and in most cases the province.
There's been a lot of change in this area, and we do find that people are taking up maternity and parental leave at fairly significant rates. If there is some idea of changing it in the future—this issue does comes up in the EI monitoring and assessment report that is done every year. So they may start looking at it—but not right now.