I think people who are caregiving family members should be accruing pensionable time under the Canada Pension Plan. If we look at traditional stereotypical gender roles, if a husband's sick, the wife or the woman in his life is going to look after him at home. She's going to save a whack of money for the public purse in home care, hospital costs, etc., and she is obviously going to take a big hit economically at the end of it.
The same would be said for a man who would be willing to do that. Traditionally, however, in our society--and that would be an interesting study to do, I suppose--more women end up in hospitals when they have terminal illnesses, or they end up being cared for at home by other women family members, such as a mother, a sister, or a daughter.
Those gendered roles in our society definitely have an impact on the economic well-being of women for the rest of their lives. When they're doing something that we should be providing--and we should be providing home care--we should ensure that they are economically made whole at the end of that situation.