We've been promoting for a long time.... As anybody who has been around Parliament will know, we've been promoting that the unemployment insurance system should be changed so there is a common access for the number of hours, which would be 360 hours for people to access it. That would mean that a lot of women and a lot of young people would be able to access unemployment insurance for short or longer periods of their unemployment.
That's a critical issue. When the system was changed from a weeks accumulation to an hours accumulation, I don't think anybody anticipated that the access hours were going to be set so high that people weren't going to be able to get into the system anymore. And that's quite clearly what it is.
Again, a number of years ago I had a women tell me that between her first child and her second child, when the system got changed, she no longer qualified as she would have if the system had stayed the way it was.
If we're going to do something, we would say decrease the number of hours that are needed to access EI, and then women will have better access to parental benefits.