Pierre Poilievre at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On October 18th, 2016. See this statement in context.

October 18th, 2016 / 10:20 a.m.

Conservative

Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON

I understand. We're short on time, though.

Canadians in certain circumstances have marginal effective tax rates of well over 100%, particularly disabled people who want to work. We know from the statistics that there are hundreds of thousands of disabled Canadians who want to enter the workforce but are punished with METRs of sometimes over 100%. In other words, they lose money by earning money.

Would there be any benefit in ESDC tracking the global METR of Canadians in various different circumstances to ensure that the combined effect of provincial and federal programs and our tax system does not punish people for making the effort to earn a living?

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