Finance committee   Bureau to undertake a market study. As part of this, I'll just mention that I see in parts of the region I represent, for instance, gas prices that are just as high in an area that has 15¢ less a litre in tax, as prices in another area that has that tax. I'm curious. As part

Science and Research committee   dimensions of marginalization, as the other witnesses have shared. A study by the Canadian Association of University Teachers found that racialized university educators are paid almost 15% less than their white counterparts. Another peer-reviewed study also found that racialized

Agriculture committee   sequester the carbon emissions from more than three million cars annually, benefit biodiversity and produce high-quality protein from low-quality land and feed that often can't be used by humans. Producing one kilogram of Canadian beef generated 15% less greenhouse gas and used 17% less

Science and Research committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. My question is for Mr. Hewitt. I'd like to get a better sense of why the funding for the three granting agencies is broken down on a 40‑40‑20 basis. SSHRC has been receiving 15% less for the past 30 years. Can you explain what the basis for the 40‑40

Transport committee   vessel. CN has reduced and improved our fuel efficiency by over 37% since 1996. We're the industry leader in fuel efficiency. We consume 15% less fuel than the industry average. From the passenger point of view, we share the tracks already. Passenger VIA Rail does run on both CN

Business of Supply   15% less on new clean energy development in 2015 than in 2014. We are going the wrong way. Future growth in this sector will depend largely on policies being developed, both federally and provincially, and on ending fossil fuel subsidies so that renewable alternatives

Status of Women committee   in the world, I interviewed and received a job offer from the Boeing aerospace company at 15% less pay than my almost identical classmate. I was told there was absolutely nothing I could do about it; that was just the way it was. I did see that there was a class action suit against Boeing

Agriculture committee  . Compared to 30 years ago, each kilogram of beef we produce today requires 29% fewer breeding stock, 27% fewer slaughter cattle, and 24% less land, and it produces 15% less greenhouse gas. You might ask how we do that. Better yielding forages and feed mean more cattle can be raised

Information & Ethics committee   and processed more than 1.3 million responsive pages—the second largest number among federal institutions. Like other institutions, the CRA has experienced considerable growth in page volumes over the past 10 years. In 2005-06, the agency reviewed nearly 350,000 pages. In 2014-15, less than

Pay Equity committee   in low-wage workplaces. The results show that women earn about 15% less than men do when the workplace is not taken into account, compared to 8% less when workplace controls were included. When the wage ratio is adjusted for differences in the observable characteristics of men

Military Contribution Against ISIL  , we have a Minister of National Defence who is having his government's classic problem of informing Canadians with any veracity. This of course is the same person who one day in question period said that there was no 15% rule allowing employers to pay temporary foreign workers 15

Employment   foreign workers. Then the Conservatives allowed temporary foreign workers to be paid 15% less than Canadian workers. Is that not just an abuse of foreign workers? With that change, the Conservatives started a race to the bottom, driving down Canadian wages as well. It is a lose–lose

Employment  It is interesting, Mr. Speaker, that the Prime Minister does not hesitate to interfere in the market when it comes time to bring in more temporary foreign workers and pay them 15% less than Canadian workers to suppress wages, or to force seniors to work an extra two years before

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1  . Correspondingly, the Conservatives brought in the temporary foreign worker expedited 10-day guarantee. Labour brokers, labour pimps, from around the world are now bringing crews of construction workers to Canada under that program. They are being paid 15% less, and not less than

Business of Supply   by the Canadian workforce. It is not meant to allow employers to reduce their payroll costs because they can pay foreign workers 15% less than Canadian workers. Today the Conservatives are saying that Canadian workers should be given preferential treatment, while the number of temporary