Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my Conservative colleague for introducing this bill. The bill comes after we have been fighting for 10 years to increase EI sickness benefits to 50 weeks from the 15 weeks that have been provided for the past 50 years.
My colleague was asked by the party opposite whether this bill required a royal recommendation.
Does he think that what is really required here is for the government to show some political will in moving this forward?