Lupus Canada embarked on a national advocacy campaign during the previous federal election in 2019. The campaign aimed to make changes to the Government of Canada National Employment Insurance Sickness Benefits and the Canada Pension Plan Disability (CPPD) Benefits. Specifically we wanted the main political parties to commit to the following changes:
- Change the EI Sickness Benefit eligibility by reducing the number of accumulated hours of insurable employment from 600 to 400 and the qualifying period simplified to 26 weeks; and
- Change the CPP-D so that the definition of disability falls in line with the Accessible Canada Act definition which includes episodic disabilities.
