Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements And Federal Post-Secondary Education And Health Contributions Act   of agglomeration, the solution to regional income inequalities lies in the movement of people from outlying areas to the centre. Such movement, which in Canada until the 1960s had been gradual and low cost, permitted higher incomes to be earned by the migrants and, more important, it raised

Employment Insurance Act   the pace and depth of change. Nowhere is the upheaval more pronounced than in the world of work. Whether one is a qualified pessimist such as Jeremy Riffkin, who predicts massive unemployment and growing income inequality because of the displacement of workers due to this profound

Supply   a delegation from the Canadian Association of Food Banks that rightly told us its mandate was to see that food banks were eliminated. The main issue in terms of what causes the need for food banks is income inequality, the lack of income for poor people, the working poor and the unemployed

Finance   beyond a relative measure of poverty which is a permanent measure because it will always exist as long as there is even an infinitesimal income inequality?

Supply   will acknowledge that we have huge income inequities in this country and serious problems with the inequitable distribution of wealth and resources? The Reform Party's answer is simply to cut taxes. I would ask Reform members to look at our neighbours to the south, whom they always like to use

Budget Implementation Act, 1999   this is happening. The report I referred to says that this decline was mainly due to loss in market income, in other words, income from employment. Remember this was a report done for deputy ministers of the government. The authors warned of their growing fear that after 15 to 20 years, income

Canada Labour Code   older and younger employees, generating tensions within businesses where they are in use. They greatly contribute to social inequality. Several studies have shown that income inequalities in Canada are linked to salary inequalities between young workers and more experienced ones

Canada Labour Code   inequality. Several studies have demonstrated that income inequalities in Canada are linked to wage inequalities between young and more experienced workers. Between 1981 and 1993, men aged 18 to 24 experienced a 20% drop in earnings, while men aged 45 to 54 earned 20% more. Like work

Social Housing   is that there are glaring examples of income inequality. Report after report shows us that income inequality in this country is growing. A recent report from Statistics Canada, the so-called wealth study, measured income inequality. We know it exists. The evidence is there. The issue is what will we do

Poverty   of growing income inequality and poverty in Canada be ignored. We call on the Minister of Justice and the federal government to fulfill their duty under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by ensuring that poor Canadians have economic security and dignity.

Prebudget Consultations   rich and poor has continued to grow. This is why income inequality is at its largest spread than at any point in the last generation...Years of neo-liberal policies have promised that the private market is the best solution to inequality and that (somehow) we can simply grow our way

Poverty   released today is evidence of another nail in the coffin of failed public policy and a Liberal government that has failed to address the growing crisis of income inequality. Why does Canada have a poverty rate of 25% for single mothers compared to a low of 3% in Sweden? Because

Social Condition   and income inequality in this country. The onus is on the government to show responsibility that it understands that principle and is willing to address it. That is not what we heard from the government today. I was disappointed to hear the government's response. I would go further than

Business of Supply   about those statistics. A recent report by Statistics Canada in fact showed that the disposable income inequality was virtually unchanged in 1990 compared to 1980, but grew sharply between 1990 and 2000. The result is a long term increase in disposable income inequality. During

Justice committee   academic achievement, dropout, or truancy; unemployment, under-employment, few employment prospects. When we go to the socio-economic and community factors, we have social upheaval, poverty, income inequity, racism, and proliferation of gang culture. There's another component as well