Business of Supply   to calculate income inequality in every country in the world. Can she explain why their approach did not work when the Liberals formed the government and why the inequality continued to increase for all those years?

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I have been listening to the hon. member's speech. As I mentioned in another question, I am still shocked by the succession of fragmented, clientelistic measures. Even the objective of the motion has been forgotten, namely correcting the growing income inequality

Business of Supply   of the Liberal Party how he thinks about income and equality and its relationship to the health of our democracy at the moment. Would he agree that the further we see income inequality building up in this country, the less engagement of citizens there is with our political system and the more

The Economy   just last month, the Governor of the Bank of Canada said that income inequality was an issue that could not be dismissed and could not be set aside, that it was a question that needed to be discussed, debated and acted upon by Canadians. Does the minister agree with the Governor

The Economy  Mr. Speaker, the government is hard at work every day pushing for economic growth and has brought forth initiatives to help tackle income inequality. I will name a number of areas where we have done just that: the labour market agreements for persons with disabilities; working

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I want to point out a couple of facts that the hon. member may not be aware of, the fact for instance that the Conference Board of Canada recently gave Canada a C grade for income inequality in this country. We are now above the OECD average in terms of increasing

The Economy  . For the 5% of Canadians earning more than $100,000, disposable incomes may be rising. However, for the other 95%, the hard truth is the opposite. Does the government have any plan to tackle income inequality? Is there any plan for jobs in Canada's suffering manufacturing sector

International Trade committee   trade and the economy on a parallel track and engaging in a very targeted social policy initiative to try to reduce income inequality. In Canada, of course, we're seeing rising income inequality. We're now at the same stage we were in the 1920s. In fact, for most Canadian families

Human Resources committee  Let me take this income inequality a step further to indicate to you what's apparently going to show up on Thursday. The gap is growing. We are seeing the rich, the top 5%, driving up shelter prices beyond the reach of an increasing number of people in the country. It says

Human Resources committee   Thursday—is saying that what we're looking at is a seriousness of income inequality in Canada. We're failing a new generation of Canadian-born workers and immigrants, aged 18 to 34, who are not only not getting ahead but are falling further behind. In an economic boom, as talk

Finance committee  , as it renders the search for tax advantage less fruitful, but that's a good thing for our economy, because we can put those minds to more productive use. For the second concrete example, consider income inequality. In work with my colleagues David Green and Marc Frenette, of Statistics

Financial Literacy Leader Act  ' response is not to increase the Canada pension plan. Their response is to present some pooled pension Ponzi scheme, and here we are tonight, where instead of dealing with income inequality and with the fact that wages do not keep apace with the cost of living in Canada

CANADA-PANAMA ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PROSPERITY ACT   there are many people who will look at trade as one of the best ways to alleviate poverty in countries that have not achieved the economic success of Canada, including in areas of income inequality, an area about which I am sure opposition members will be most interested in asking questions

Natural Resources committee   accrued; they're well celebrated in the north. We also see high levels of income inequality that come with the higher incomes. The higher incomes are not necessarily shared in the same way that we see country foods being shared, for example. We see increased debt loads and problems

Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act   be implications for Canada's performance and its competitiveness in the future. We have an income inequality problem, and this is where I was going with the question of median salary. It was stated that the top 1% of salaries now make up 24% of income in Canada. This has been mentioned often