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House Hansard - 62

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 2, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 62 - May/2/22
Mr. Peter Julian (New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP)
  • May/2/22 2:29:31 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, two important benefits that make it possible for parents to stay home with their young children and for workers to stay home when they are sick expire next Saturday, May 7. Meanwhile, we are still waiting for employment insurance reform and paid sick leave, which are long overdue. Canada is going through the sixth wave of the pandemic. Can the Minister of Finance explain why her government is once again leaving workers out in the cold? Will she renew these extremely important matters?
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Context: House Hansard - 62 - May/2/22
Mr. Daniel Blaikie (Elmwood—Transcona, NDP)
  • May/2/22 2:30:51 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the minister is right: Canadians do deserve an employment insurance system that is there for them and that works. In fact, they should have had that in place before the Liberals ended pandemic benefits that allowed them to stay home with their children when they were sick, and that allowed them to stay home from work when they were sick to not put their colleagues in danger. Instead, what we have is a situation where the government is allowing these benefits to end without having put the 10 paid sick days in place and without having put the employment insurance reforms in place. Will the government either present these reforms immediately or extend the benefits until it reforms EI and puts the 10 paid sick days in place?
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