We're in Canada, and my wife is taking 18 months. It's great, but as a correction, it's 55%/33% of your EI insurable earnings, which is a maximum of $53,100 (2019). There are modifiers for single parents and/or local unemployment rates.

Also, they recently added a new parental leave benefit for the secondary caregiver so they can take 5/8 weeks off. It's a "use or it lose it" benefit, meaning you can't add it to the primary caregiver's leave. This effectively amounts to a paternal leave benefit that most everyone will now take, shifting the focus away from women (slightly) when a child is on the way.