Canada Labour Code   workplaces, contributing to broader economic stability and growth. It helps in setting industry-wide standards that can elevate living conditions and reduce income inequality. Furthermore, by giving workers a voice in their employment conditions, collective bargaining empowers them

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2023  , and I think it is a necessary corrective to some of the conversation I have heard today. If we ask what the concerns of Canadians are, economic uncertainty is their number one concern, along with income inequality, housing affordability, job market challenges, high household debts

Committees of the House   are driving income inequality. An OECD study of seven European nations found that oligopolies reduced wages an average of 7% overall, but 13% for the working class. A U.K. Competition and Markets Authority study published a report last week that said that there is mounting evidence

Finance committee  Maybe the last question I'll have to both of you is this. Starting from when we were first elected in 2015, a lot of what we've done has been to reduce the income inequality gap and to really strengthen the middle class, with the introduction of the Canada child benefit

Finance committee  You can stay in the seat, Mr. Courtice. One thing I struggle with personally is that our federal government has genuinely really worked to reduce income inequality and to really adjust all of our supports on the lower end of the income scale. We've triple increased the Canada

Finance committee   income inequality and improved quality of the workplace due to workers having greater control, more aligned incentives and increased skills development. In some ways, worker co-ops are similar to other forms of employee ownership; they are just the most democratic form of it. Worker

Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform  , on average, lower income inequality, more success moving forward with necessary and real climate action and higher scores on the UN's Human Development Index that measures health, knowledge and standard of living. I am pleased to share that Canadian citizens from all political parties

Finance committee   how important education is. If anything is going to solve the issues of income inequality and food insecurity in our society, education has the best chance to actually accomplish that for people. We need to invest in our kids' education in a meaningful way so that not just kids who

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1   the interest on our debt is a rising rate and a rising number. It is escalating quickly. Deficits do not solve themselves. They take planning and resolve. The consequences of not solving them are upon us with rising inflation, rising taxation and rising income inequality. There are rising

Veterans Affairs committee   meetings to this study. You mentioned representation of women in key positions, the consequences of military service on their physical health and mental health, harassment, sexual trauma, income inequality, and a possibly stronger tendency to homelessness. Can this distinction between

Status of Women committee   at the underpinning of the issue of how Canadians are growing up to do such horrible things. A big part of it is misogyny and patriarchy, but it's also what happens when you see such high rates of poverty and growing income inequality. It means we're forced to go at each other instead of working

Status of Women committee  . That is also why we say that you can't arrest your way out of this problem. It is about deep-seated social inequalities. A lot of that comes from income inequality, poverty—

Health committee  ; it intersects, and it reproduces income inequality. It also then intersects with income inequality. Those are some of the lessons we've learned. I think what would be very important going forward is for us to start collecting race-based disaggregated data, which we did not have before COVID

Health committee  I must say that poverty and income inequality do not exist in isolation. We also see, for example, race-based inequalities and how those contribute, for example, to income inequality. Statistics Canada just released a report that found that, contrary to public opinion, African

Health committee  . The influence of the concentration of Black people in the neighbourhood was much stronger than the influence of income inequality in the neighbourhood. The central reason for these disparities is not biological or genetic. Rather, it's because of systemic and structural racism