Peggy Nash at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Welcome to the witnesses.

I'd like to use my time to explore the relationship between the job losses in the manufacturing sector and growing poverty in Canada.

I'm from the city of Toronto. We had a recent United Way report that talked about how poverty is dramatically on the rise. We've lost about 125,000 manufacturing jobs in our city. We hear from some quarters that while there are job losses in the manufacturing sector, it is being offset by growth in other sectors.

I'd like to ask the witnesses about the impact of the loss of manufacturing jobs, the growth of poverty, and your views on whether the growth of the service sector is going to help reduce poverty in Canada.