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• Like all MPs, Gould wasn’t eligible for parental leave when her first child was born in 2018.
• She’s taking six months off, thanks to 2019 legislation that provides MP parents of newborns up to 12 months with paid parental leave benefits.
• Yet there are key differences, and they offer three lessons on how parental leave could be redesigned for each and every Canadian parent.

Lesson 1: Boost eligibility

• This is due to many factors, including restrictive eligibility criteria of 600 employment hours in the year before a child’s birth.
• It’s time to rethink eligibility criteria so that more Canadians can benefit from parental leave benefits.

Lesson 2: Better wage top-ups

• For most Canadians, however, parental leave is low-paid: only 33 to 55 per cent of wages, with a ceiling of $401 to $668 weekly and $63,200 annually.
• Out of 36 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Canada has the lowest wage replacement rates for parental leave.
• In Québec, which has a 70-75 per cent wage replacement rate, that number was 85.6 per cent.

Lesson 3: More flexibility

• Finally, there are lessons about flexibility and choice, and what they mean in a post-pandemic world, where remote work has changed how people balance family life and paid work.
• For Gould, this means taking a short post-partum leave and then combining parental leave with some remote work.
• But there are precedents to build on, such as Ontario’s “right to disconnect” policy and EI’s Working While on Claim option.

Shining a spotlight

• It should matter to all Canadians, because it shines a spotlight on the federal government’s long overdue promise to rethink and redesign parental leave policy.
• A rethinking of parental leave should begin with clarifying what parental leave is.
• Parental leave also needs to be integrated with other care policies, especially early learning and child-care policies.

Recognizing the value of care

• The pandemic also illuminated the socioeconomic value of care and the care economy.
• When she returns from her parental leave, she will be well-placed to advocate for more inclusive integrated care policies.

Andrea Doucet receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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