Business of Supply   options to make our tax system fairer to tackle the real and serious problem of inequality, the government has put forward consultations, which are now over. Income inequality in Canada is a real and serious issue for all. Recently, the census revealed that Canada's level of income

Committees of the House   studying income inequality over the last 15 years, I can offer a key fact to the debate. In my view, nothing has contributed more than natural resources to buttressing the Canadian middle class against the rapidly changing global economy of the 21st century. The importance

Finance committee   that exacerbates a growing income inequality. When governments offer tax cuts or close tax loopholes, it's not likely to make much difference in what middle-income and lower-income Canadians pay in taxes. As a result, ordinary Canadians don't speak up, and we've seen the progressivity of our

Natural Resources committee   are flowing around Canada more quickly than the oil. The ultimate decisions on natural resource projects, however, ought to derive from facts. As an economist studying income inequality over the last 15 years, I can offer a key fact to the debate. In my view, nothing has contributed more

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition signed by several residents of Hochelaga and the surrounding ridings. It states that Canadian families are working harder than ever but still struggle to make ends meet, that a decent minimum wage would help combat growing income

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1   to vote against these types of initiatives to ensure there will be less income inequality?

Business of Supply  ? That is the presumption of some on the political left, especially of the current government, that somehow invariably more taxes, more programs, more government intervention in people's lives is going to respond to questions of income inequality and is going to help those who are least well off

The Budget  . However, when we are out of recession and see growth, the Liberals and NDP say we should still have deficits and more spending. When is it ever okay to stop borrowing money from future generations of Canadians? When it comes to income inequality, nothing has done more to lift people

The Budget   reach the $25-billion target. The government is trying to make us believe that it is tackling income inequality, but it is protecting tax havens. When the Minister of National Revenue and the Prime Minister give us the statistics on how many investigations have been launched and how

Poverty   because the measure applies only to those who turned 65 on or after January 1. We are talking about 56,000 seniors who are living on less than $10,000 a year. This is unacceptable. Income inequality is our society's most flagrant injustice—

Business of Supply   political will to reverse the trend of rising income inequality, which began decades ago and has continued under both Conservative and Liberal governments. There are a number of things we could do. We need to change the corporate tax rules that allow for the use of shell companies. We

International Trade   labour side agreement would do nothing to change the alarming trend of growing income inequality in our country. However, the Conservative government pressed on, and today we know the harsh impact of this trade deal on working people. Since 1994, successive governments have

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 1   disappointing acts for many of their supporters. Now I would like to move from form to function and some of the consequences of Bill C-44. One of the main themes of the last federal election was the struggle to reduce income inequality in Canada, an inequality that has been steadily

Finance committee  When I did some work looking at the ability of the income tax system to affect income inequality, what I found was that incremental changes to our tax system are not going to have large-scale effects. If you want to change income inequality more through the tax system, it would

Human Resources committee  In your presentation, you spoke briefly about how the OECD has documented the polarization of the labour market. How is Canada, and more particularly Quebec, affected by income inequality, the gap in which is growing larger and larger?