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

Human Resources committee   The Impact of Inequality. You are probably aware that income inequality and economic inequality—that segment we call poverty—is at the heart of increasing levels of insecurity and crime worldwide. It's also responsible for the ill health that we see right across societies. If you want

Human Resources committee  , if you reduce income inequality and in fact create an inclusive society, you dramatically reduce health care costs. In B.C., the argument across on the other coast is that the provincial budget will go completely over the top because of the increasing health care costs

Human Resources committee   adequately and if managed adequately, I think taxes could be raised and used to bring more equality to income distribution. As the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives said just a week or so ago, I think that maintaining income inequality is dangerous. It's not sustainable. I think

Human Resources committee  . From the beginning our key issues have been the eradication of poverty and growing income inequality. As you probably know, the OECD unfortunately singled out Canada as one of the most unequal societies last year in its review, and it cited major tax cuts and reductions in transfers

Human Resources committee   poverty. Children who come to school hungry, dressed poorly, or ill cannot concentrate in class. This is the beginning of a vicious cycle where children are not successful in school, become disengaged, and often years later leave school without graduating. Poverty and income

Human Resources committee   inequality among the OECD countries, it actually pointed to the federal fiscal policy over the last decade as being a primary cause of poverty and income inequality. It said ongoing tax cuts, which primarily benefit higher-income people and profitable corporations, and social spending

Finance committee   tried to lump them together. The best thing this budget could do would be to make a strong investment in early childhood development. That would be the first thing. Our second recommendation would be to reverse the growing trend in income inequality in this country. Both would

Human Resources committee   countries around the world. These two researchers, Wilkinson and Pickett, describe what's at stake and point out the prevalence of inequality in developed societies. As a backdrop to this debate, we know that Canada is one of those nations in which the rate of income inequality between

Human Resources committee   suggestions for the tax structure that would result in reducing income inequality and would significantly address poverty in Canada. Transfer payments with conditions attached have long been a tradition, but less so under recent governments of Canadian federalism. The national child tax

Human Resources committee  Okay. For those of us who follow them, the socio-economic policies to mitigate income inequity in this country over the last decade and a half have been pretty depressing. But I'll answer Tony's question by saying there have been two great successes, and I encourage you to use

Human Resources committee   with the lowest and highest incomes, an indication of income inequity, widened during the past decade, with single mothers the most affected. Child poverty is women's poverty, which is increasing in our hostile environment. More women and children are accessing soup kitchens, the food bank

Disposition of an Act to amend the Excise Tax Act   decades of growing income inequality in the country prove those premises false. Every person I have talked to in my riding of Hamilton Mountain understands that reality. I have asked what they would say if I told them that the federal Conservative government was bribing the provincial

Disposition of an act to amend the Excise Tax Act   and Liberal governments, of pursuing policies that boost returns to a privileged corporate elite on the flimsy excuse that they will use those returns to benefit the rest of us. Three decades of growing income inequality in the country proves those promises are false. However, what

Provincial Choice Tax Framework Act   those returns to benefit the rest of us. Three decades of growing income inequality in this country prove those promises false.