Finance committee  No, no.

Finance committee  If—

Finance committee  That is already what the language of the act allows. It was explained previously that the employer may give less than a day, or, if for operational reasons for whatever industry or sector, they cannot allow, for example, an employee to go for two hours, and then let this employee

Finance committee  If this amendment were accepted, the last sentence would read, “Each period of leave may be of less than one day's duration.” Am I correct?

Finance committee  The problem is that it can take time before a determination is made as to who is the perpetrator and who is the victim. The leave will be pointless if it takes a year or two for the justice system to finally work out who the victim is and who the guilty party is. It takes way too

Finance committee  Is that without the amendment or with the amendment?

Finance committee  Okay, so without the amendment, as it is written now, what proposed subsection 206.7(3) does is actually remove the entitlement you have in subsection 2. There is the leave to which an employee is entitled, and then there's the exception, when it is not entitled. There's nothing

Finance committee  The act has been drafted taking into consideration all the situations of all the aboriginal groups in the north of provinces and sometimes in the south, in Quebec, Ontario, and all of that. Some have a kind of status, if I may say so, and some don't. Actually, we heard that Métis