Finance committee  This cause was very dear to me. To watch David suffer physically and mentally over the financing.... I just want to tell every Canadian that, if you believe in yourself and you believe in your cause, you can move mountains. I'm proof of it. I moved a mountain, and so many people

Finance committee  Definitely. When I first started David's Cause, I wanted 52 weeks, but I just thought I was asking for the stars. Sean and I worked with this and came up with the 26 weeks. It was a good start. I didn't want it to finish there, but it was a good start. In the future, it will gi

Finance committee  No. We need more than 26 weeks. David would still have been alive for two months after if this change had been in there to help us. Twenty-six weeks is a massive improvement, but I think it should be more. I'm hoping that we go one step at a time and that eventually everybody wil

Finance committee  Hello, Chair and members of Parliament. Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to talk to you about something that's very dear to my heart—EI sickness benefits. My name is Kathy MacNaughton. My common-law husband, David Fraser, was diagnosed with esophageal cancer o