Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act  . The member is right to raise the issue of income inequality. All of that money is being channelled to corporate CEOs, corporate lawyers. Essentially, we have a massive movement of wealth which means the wealthiest Canadians now take most of Canada's income. That is completely unfair

Business of Supply   title of being a former economic policy adviser to George Bush, said in a recent issue of Foreign Affairs: [Income] inequality in the United States is greater today than at any time since the 1920s. Less than four percent of workers were in educational groups that enjoyed increases

Canada–EFTA Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act  %, which is what the economic policies of the Conservatives and Liberals are oriented toward, such as EFTA, essentially now take half of all real income in Canada. This has not been seen since the 1930s. We went through the Great Depression. We had that type of income inequality

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

International Trade committee   the same kind of income inequality that we had in the 1930s, where 50% of all income goes to the wealthiest Canadians. Those are the facts. That's what Statistics Canada tells us about what has happened since 1989. So I simply find that your arguments around economic development don't

Business of Supply   of Canadian families are earning less and we now have levels of income inequality that we have not seen since the Great Depression. It has been a catastrophic failure of economic policy and economic fundamentals. The most catastrophic impact has been on younger Canadians, a generation

Human Resources committee  , that are broadly applicable across the country. I think we do need relative income measures like the LICO, and we can debate the pros and cons of the particular methodology, but that's important. It tracks low income and income inequality. But I would argue that we need to continue to develop

Human Resources committee  . Poverty has basically been trending down from 1997. It's basically been static. If we're using the after-tax cycle, it's basically been sliding sideways around the 11% mark for the last four years or so. Income inequality has continued to grow, so the gap between the rich

Human Resources committee   in the immigration system, and it has an important role to play in housing. The federal government has moved back from housing, and I don't think it's an accident or a mistake that when we started to see poverty rising in the 1990s and income inequality emerging, it was at the same time that we

Human Resources committee   maligned, actually is a very important historical measure. It has been a very credible and rigorous tracking of low income and income inequality in Canada for these many years. We do not have measures, for instance, for material deprivation, and that's what Glenn was talking about

Finance committee  Let me address that with a brief point. One thing that's really interesting is that there has been a rise in income inequality in Canada over the past 25 years, but a lot of that is driven not by changes in capital income but by changes in earned income. People at the very top

Status of Women committee   about $250 billion that is not available for tackling the big issues of our day: struggling cities, climate change, and the toxic growth of income inequality. Why did we give away that opportunity to act? It was for the sake of tax cuts. Let us be very clear here: the tax cut agenda

International Trade committee  Those are studies we have done within the Canadian Labour Congress, and I would be happy to share them with the committee. These are studies that show that family incomes have decreased at the same time that income inequality has increased in this country and that social

International Trade committee  . There is a progressive alternative for an international position that could develop fair trade policies that bring about justice in the international system and do not entrench increasing income inequality within Canada, regional disparities, and also an unequal kind of world order in which we find

International Trade committee  , and to this point in time resulting in low value-added exports. We've been concerned that income inequality has accompanied this model of development. So we see, on the one hand, the manufacturing sector being under stress and incredible strain, and on the other hand we see resource dependency