Human Resources committee  I would like to add in particular one group, a very significant group: single mothers in this country, many of whom are unemployed and many of whom probably would like to be employed. The problem is not so much their willingness to be employed but the disincentives to employment

Human Resources committee  I don't either, unfortunately.

Human Resources committee  I would just add two things to that. One, I think the advantage of composite measure is that it allows for differentiation across the country and allows you to take into account the diversity, whether in Quebec or elsewhere. Two, I would say that all poverty measures are ultimat

Human Resources committee  Fifty-five to sixty-four...?

Human Resources committee  Well, I can start the discussion on that. I think there are several countries in Europe.... The committee would well know that the Scandinavian countries in general are quite ahead of us in this regard while maintaining high economic growth. Both at an economic level and a socia

Human Resources committee  I'm not going to repeat what Katherine said, but I wanted to highlight a couple of things that I think are important, to be brief about the distinction. One, I think, is that there has to be respect for the division of responsibilities between the federal government and the pro

Human Resources committee  I can talk about that in relation to our proposals. There were two areas that we felt were important. One was the development of a housing allowance. It's allocated as a direct transfer or a tax credit and would be a benefit to low-income women. Many other countries have done t

Human Resources committee  What we did was look at the initiatives of other countries to get some sense of what they were doing. They didn't in fact specifically focus on women, but they did develop composite indices. Then we looked at the research around women's income, both within families and individual

Human Resources committee  Thank you. We had been asked to focus, I had understood, on more the strategies and solutions related to women's poverty rather than the facts and issues. We did give you a written submission that includes documentation on some of the issues related to women's poverty and also t

Finance committee  Do you mean their criticism of it?

Finance committee  Their proposal is to integrate the initiatives.

Finance committee  I can tell you in more general terms. If you look at the taxation trends within Anglo-Saxon countries, which tend to be the United States, Canada, the U.K., and to some extent Australia, we've gone down a similar path. If you look at the Scandinavian countries and parts of Euro

Finance committee  In terms of the corporate tax cuts, I'm not experienced in that area, but the one thing that has been raised by the environmental groups is that certain kinds of targeted tax cuts make sense, particularly for those corporations that are moving in the environmental direction that

Finance committee  Thank you, Chair, and thank you for inviting us. I'm going to divide my oral presentation into two parts: briefly, an expression of our concerns, which will echo several things you've already heard, and then talking about our suggestions. In terms of our concerns, our written s