moved for leave to introduce Bill C-370, An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (length of benefit period).
Mr. Speaker, this bill increases the duration of benefits, first by providing that a week in which at least 15 hours were worked counts as a week of insurable employment, and second by providing that every 30 hours of the total hours worked counts as a week of insurable employment.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)