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

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

Finance committee  , there is a concern that a move of that sort could increase income inequality. So to a large extent, the answer to the question depends on the relative weight you put on reducing income inequality compared to increasing the rate of growth. I think that is a question for politicians to decide

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

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  . 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  , 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  I don't think you need to choose one. I think the market basket measure measures one thing and the low-income cut-off measures another. It is important to measure income inequality. I think it is important because income inequality is an indicator of social exclusion. My answer

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

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

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

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

Economic and Fiscal Statement  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Chambly—Borduas for his question. This gives me an opportunity to add something to the debate that not much has been said about. One of the problems that explains the current crisis is the rising income inequality in our societies

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

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