Human Resources committee  I'm a great supporter of the child tax benefit. I think it's great. But it underlines the importance of different levels of governments working together so that the benefits created at the federal level are not just a good opportunity for provincial governments to claw it back--b

Human Resources committee  Obviously, Mr. McKenna was a firm believer in creating jobs; some would say he was obsessed by that. The prime focus of his 10 years as premier was to create jobs and to use new technologies to take us out of the traditional industries. I live in a small community of lobster fi

Human Resources committee  Certainly, I would refer your clerk to our report that we published last year, Connecting the Dots, in which we addressed a lot of those issues. All of the recommendations were accepted by the provincial government. Some of them are being implemented now. I think there's a lot

Human Resources committee  That is a good question. I cannot claim to have the answer but it is quite clear that they have failed. We have not made very much progress. We hear that the rate of poverty today is roughly the same as in 1989, twenty years ago. However, our country has become much more wealthy

Human Resources committee  My thinking is the same as Fraser Mustard's. I don't know if you know him. He is a great Canadian and a great Canadian expert also. His position is that the sooner we invest, the better it is. In other words, it is a matter of prevention, of helping people... We do not choose wh

Human Resources committee  Absolutely.

Human Resources committee  You are welcome.

Human Resources committee  On the mental health issue, what kind of brought it home to me last year was a mom who's the mother of one of the girls and youth we followed for a couple of years in preparing our report, Connecting the Dots. She looked at me and said that she wished her daughter had had cancer

Human Resources committee  I'll do the best I can. I don't want to be presumptuous in any way. My experience is that all elected members I have met with, from all parties, want to see things improve. I've worked with people from all parties for many years, and I've always been convinced of that. I think

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. I'll talk as quickly as I possibly can.

Human Resources committee  I stand corrected. I am obviously very pleased to be here and I want to congratulate the members of the committee for having decided to leave Ottawa. There is certainly real work being done in Ottawa but it is also important for Canadian citizens to have this kind of access to t