Very, very quickly, and this will be the last question I'll be able to stay for. My thanks to you, Madam Chair, for allowing me to leave.
I think it is an improvement that the benefits that are available under programs such as EI will be extended to self-employed professionals. Certainly when I had my children there was no such thing as maternity leave; I had to self-insure. As a result, my leaves were only between two and three months at the longest for each of the children.
Having said that, these are benefits that some of us have negotiated with our provincial governments. In fact, about eight years ago the first of the provinces began to have parental leave negotiated into physicians' contracts, and that has been available to both males and females. So yes, there are some advantages to that kind of federal legislation, but it's not the whole picture.