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Status

• The source identifies the bill as being at second reading, but the supplied text is a committee-amended working copy reported to the House on April 22, 2026.

Employment Insurance Act

• Parents receiving employment insurance benefits to care for a newborn or a child placed with them for adoption would remain eligible if the child dies during the applicable benefit period. For benefit purposes, they would be deemed to continue caring for the child until that period expires.
• They would not need to make a new claim or file a report to prove eligibility to receive or continue receiving those benefits. Equivalent provisions apply to self-employed claimants.
• The deemed-care rule would not apply if the child died as a result of an offence and the claimant was convicted of that offence.

Canada Labour Code

• An employee whose child, or whose spouse’s or common-law partner’s child, dies would be entitled to up to 10 weeks of leave. Generally, it could be taken from the day of death until 12 weeks after the last funeral, burial or memorial service.
• If the employee’s child dies while the employee is on, or entitled to be on, leave under section 206 in respect of that child, the leave-taking period would end on the later of 12 weeks after the last service or 12 weeks after the section 206 leave ends.
• The supplied text does not reproduce the full definition of “child” or specify whether the leave is paid.

Transition and commencement

• The amended leave rules would apply to certain employees whose existing leave-taking period has not ended when the change comes into force, or who are on or entitled to section 206 leave at that time.
• An eligible employee who has already taken two periods of leave under the specified existing provision could take one additional period.
• The Act would come into force on the first Sunday after six months following royal assent, or earlier on a date fixed by the Governor in Council.