Finance committee   income inequality and improved quality of the workplace due to workers having greater control, more aligned incentives and increased skills development. In some ways, worker co-ops are similar to other forms of employee ownership; they are just the most democratic form of it. Worker

Finance committee  You can stay in the seat, Mr. Courtice. One thing I struggle with personally is that our federal government has genuinely really worked to reduce income inequality and to really adjust all of our supports on the lower end of the income scale. We've triple increased the Canada

Finance committee  Maybe the last question I'll have to both of you is this. Starting from when we were first elected in 2015, a lot of what we've done has been to reduce the income inequality gap and to really strengthen the middle class, with the introduction of the Canada child benefit

Committees of the House   are driving income inequality. An OECD study of seven European nations found that oligopolies reduced wages an average of 7% overall, but 13% for the working class. A U.K. Competition and Markets Authority study published a report last week that said that there is mounting evidence

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2023  , and I think it is a necessary corrective to some of the conversation I have heard today. If we ask what the concerns of Canadians are, economic uncertainty is their number one concern, along with income inequality, housing affordability, job market challenges, high household debts

Canada Labour Code   workplaces, contributing to broader economic stability and growth. It helps in setting industry-wide standards that can elevate living conditions and reduce income inequality. Furthermore, by giving workers a voice in their employment conditions, collective bargaining empowers them