Business of Supply   and temporary foreign workers are brought in, we should not be allowed to say that a temporary foreign worker can earn 15% less than a Canadian worker. Labour and others told the minister very clearly at the time that if he did that, it would depress wages generally and would create

Business of Supply   of allowing companies to pay temporary foreign workers 15% less than Canadian workers. It is therefore not surprising that the number of temporary foreign workers in Canada has skyrocketed. The number went up from 100,000 workers in 2002 to nearly 340,000 in 2012. Low-skilled occupations

Employment  , a lot of the checks and balances that were in place in that program were cast aside when the current Minister of Public Works declared that she was accelerating the LMO process. Businesses would be allowed to pay their temporary foreign workers 15% less than Canadian workers

Employment  Mr. Speaker, two years ago, the Conservatives said that paying temporary foreign workers up to 15% less than Canadians would help our economy. Last year, they said paying temporary foreign workers the same amount as Canadians would help our economy. Today, they are saying

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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