Evidence of meeting #34 for Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was data.
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Conservative
Ed Komarnicki Conservative Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
I think our time is up. Even though I have a question and you have an answer, I guess we'll leave it for another day.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Candice Bergen
Thank you very much.
I think Mr. Lessard has a very quick two-minute question.
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Bloc
Yves Lessard Bloc Chambly—Borduas, QC
In addition to doing away with the mandatory nature of the census form, the government is also scrapping certain parts of it. As our colleague Mr. Martin pointed out, this will have an impact on the whole question of volunteer work, and more specifically the situation of women.
Ms. Rothman initially stated that children would be affected more by the changes to the long-form census. Why would that be case?
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National Co-ordinator, Campaign 2000
Taking out the question on unpaid caregiving will certainly have an impact. Well, I don't know if it will have a direct impact on children, but it will take away some important information that we know affects family income. It affects both children and seniors.
In my work in Toronto, I have a large group of co-workers who provide support services to caregivers of seniors, who are by and large the daughters of older mothers who are caring for their mothers at no cost. Sometimes it's their second or third job, in addition to being a parent to young children and often being in the paid labour force.
So I would say there are many aspects of the impact of taking away the question for tracking unpaid caregiving.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Candice Bergen
Thank you very much.
Mr. Martin, did you have a very quick question you wanted to ask?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Candice Bergen
Okay, great.
I want to thank you so much for being here and for being patient with our time restraints. I know that sometimes I had to stop you before you were quite finished. That's just the way we operate, and it seems to work pretty well, but I know it means that we have to be very concise in our answers.
Again, thank you very much for being here and for the information you have provided.
We will now take a couple of minutes to do some committee business, so we'll go in camera at this point.
[Proceedings continue in camera]
