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ENGLISHSUMMARYSUMMARY1 Short Title1 Short Title2 Employment Insurance Act2 Employment Insurance Act4 Coming into Force4 Coming into Force
Second Session, Forty-third Parliament,
69 Elizabeth II, 2020-2021
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-265
An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (illness, injury or quarantine)
FIRST READING, February 4, 2021
Mrs. DeBellefeuille
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SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Employment Insurance Act to increase from 15 to 50 the maximum number of weeks for which benefits may be paid because of illness, injury or quarantine.
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2nd Session, 43rd Parliament, 
69 Elizabeth II, 2020-2021
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-265
An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (illness, injury or quarantine)
Preamble
Whereas on February 19, 2020, the House of Commons supported by majority vote a motion calling on the government to increase the employment insurance special sickness benefits from 15 weeks to 50 weeks in order to support people with serious illnesses, such as cancer;
And whereas it is important for all Canadians that Parliament amend the Employment Insurance Act in order to prevent someone who is sick from finding themselves in a situation like that of Émilie Sansfaçon, who would have greatly benefited from additional weeks of special sickness benefits to spend precious time with her family members before losing her battle against cancer;
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
Short Title
Short title
1 This Act may be cited as the Émilie Sansfaçon Act.
1996, c. 23
Employment Insurance Act
2 Paragraph 12(3)‍(c) of the Employment Insurance Act is replaced by the following:
(c) because of a prescribed illness, injury or quarantine is 50;
3 Paragraph 152.‍14(1)‍(c) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(c) because of a prescribed illness, injury or quarantine is 50;
Coming into Force
April 1, 2021
4 This Act comes into force or is deemed to have come into force on the earlier of the day on which it receives royal assent and April 1, 2021.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons
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