International Trade committee  , and of course the top 1% have profited spectacularly in this period, so what we're seeing in Canada is much more income inequality. In fact, we're at the most unequal level since the 1920s, and most of the jobs created today are part time and temporary in nature. With reference to your

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Excellency, for your comments around income inequality. My colleague Mr. Allison was quite right to point out the absurdity of having so-called average incomes going up when we know that for 80% of Canadian families they've actually fallen

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

Status of Women committee   has benefited from Status of Women Canada funding for an educational and policy change project that was aimed at decreasing income equities by educating the public about the impact income inequities and social exclusion have on women's health. This project has been very successful

Human Resources committee   such as NAFTA, more jobs have been lost than created. As a matter of fact, we lost over 200,000 manufacturing jobs in the last five years or so, but the impact has been the widening income gap among Canadians. Income inequality has increased for the first time in Canada since the 1920s. Half

Budget Implementation Act, 2007   the very rich; some low-income families with a low tax liability will receive a smaller amount, while the poorest will get nothing at all because they do not owe income tax. The poorest families will get nothing. This measure will make income inequality among families worse

Finance committee   evidence that things have worsened for them. There's evidence that in the 1990s incomes of low-income Canadians stagnated and that wealth and income inequality has grown. What this means is that increasing numbers of people--and to an increasing extent, I think--have fewer incentives

Status of Women committee  Canada is at its economic peak right now. There's an amazing report called Growing Concerns: Canadian Attitudes Toward Income Inequality, published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. We have the lowest unemployment rate in 30 years. We have the highest corporate

Budget Implementation Act, 2007   Columbia. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report said: Increasing income inequality has further aggravated housing affordability issues for many Canadians. The rental market has stagnated in terms of supply, with a net increase of only 2,000 units across all of Canada

Budget Implementation Act, 2007   and advocate on their own behalf the government, and their ability to get a fair and equitable part of the resources in Canada. Therefore, I will be voting against the budget. It does not address some of the serious income inequalities in this country.

HIV-AIDS among Aboriginal People   are recreating the same conditions that we had around the time of prohibition and, later, the Great Depression. This is not just limited to Canada. In the United States, we see similar levels of income inequality, as we well know. The United States now, according to many economic indicators

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

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  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

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