Public Accounts committee  That's a little difficult for me to estimate. I don't know if the objectives would have been the same. The objectives here were to get support to individuals and businesses quickly, to minimize the impact of COVID on those impacted by poverty and income inequality

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022  , overall, that the programs were quite effective in meeting the government's objective of first getting support out to individuals and employers quickly, minimizing the increase in poverty or income inequalities, and then also helping the economy bounce back from the pandemic

Public Accounts committee   to ineligible recipients were timely. Overall, the department and the agency effectively delivered COVID‑19 programs to provide quick financial relief to individuals and employers. This helped prevent an increase in poverty and income inequalities, and helped the economy bounce back

Public Accounts committee   introduced. As you said in the report and you articulated again here today, poverty would have increased very significantly, and the same is true for income inequality. Can you expand on that?

Public Accounts committee   programs were effective at preventing an increase in poverty, reducing income inequalities, and helping the economy bounce back. To issue payments quickly, Employment and Social Development Canada and the Canada Revenue Agency decided to limit prepayment controls. This meant

Public Accounts committee   of helping mitigate poverty and income inequality as well as facilitating an economic rebound. We now have a strong plan to conduct post-payment verification and we are carrying out this work methodically. Data analytics has assessed 100% of all the CERB applications for potential

Health committee  . The influence of the concentration of Black people in the neighbourhood was much stronger than the influence of income inequality in the neighbourhood. The central reason for these disparities is not biological or genetic. Rather, it's because of systemic and structural racism

Health committee  I must say that poverty and income inequality do not exist in isolation. We also see, for example, race-based inequalities and how those contribute, for example, to income inequality. Statistics Canada just released a report that found that, contrary to public opinion, African

Health committee  ; it intersects, and it reproduces income inequality. It also then intersects with income inequality. Those are some of the lessons we've learned. I think what would be very important going forward is for us to start collecting race-based disaggregated data, which we did not have before COVID

Status of Women committee  . That is also why we say that you can't arrest your way out of this problem. It is about deep-seated social inequalities. A lot of that comes from income inequality, poverty—

Status of Women committee   at the underpinning of the issue of how Canadians are growing up to do such horrible things. A big part of it is misogyny and patriarchy, but it's also what happens when you see such high rates of poverty and growing income inequality. It means we're forced to go at each other instead of working

Veterans Affairs committee   meetings to this study. You mentioned representation of women in key positions, the consequences of military service on their physical health and mental health, harassment, sexual trauma, income inequality, and a possibly stronger tendency to homelessness. Can this distinction between

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1   the interest on our debt is a rising rate and a rising number. It is escalating quickly. Deficits do not solve themselves. They take planning and resolve. The consequences of not solving them are upon us with rising inflation, rising taxation and rising income inequality. There are rising

Finance committee   how important education is. If anything is going to solve the issues of income inequality and food insecurity in our society, education has the best chance to actually accomplish that for people. We need to invest in our kids' education in a meaningful way so that not just kids who

Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform  , on average, lower income inequality, more success moving forward with necessary and real climate action and higher scores on the UN's Human Development Index that measures health, knowledge and standard of living. I am pleased to share that Canadian citizens from all political parties