Finance committee   that excluding the poorest Canadians--the Canadians who have the greatest need--from these tax credits is wrong, morally wrong, and that it will worsen the growing income inequality in Canada. So in an effort to address this constructively, my office has worked with the House of Commons

Finance committee   debt loads. They're struggling with the increasing income inequality we're seeing in this country. I want to ask Mr. Stanford and Mr. Seccareccia whether they feel there's a role for monetary policy in addressing some of those issues or whether this is just primarily a fiscal

Keeping Canada's Economy and Jobs Growing Act   it is targeted at families that already have the means to do that. In fact, this kind of program increases inequality in our country. We know that income inequality leads to many decreases in social well-being. A lot of evidence has proven that. Increased income inequality leads to higher

Keeping Canada's Economy and Jobs Growing Act  Mr. Speaker, first, support for volunteer firefighters was a platform of the Liberal Party, which we were pleased to see the members opposite steal and put into their budget. I thank them for that. However, they did it wrong. They did it in such a way as to undermine income

Keeping Canada's Economy and Jobs Growing Act   that last point, because, in my opinion, it is crucial to understand the economic benefits that are produced by a more equal society. Income inequality is an important indicator of fairness in an economy and has repercussions on other areas, such as crime and social exclusion. A study

Business of Supply   and flush toilets. First nations communities are 90% more likely to lack running water than other Canadian and non-first nation homes. Just think about that. That is simply unacceptable and we cannot allow it. Canada is a country that has a medium rate of income inequality

Keeping Canada's Economy and Jobs Growing Act   by the Conference Board of Canada shows that income inequality is rising even faster in Canada than in the U.S. The Conference Board's July 2011 study helps to provide some context by discussing why growing income gaps are a problem. It pointed out the following: —high inequality can diminish

Business of Supply   that. It shows us how, when we do not deal with the fundamental issues of the environment, of climate change, of income inequality, of poverty and of the growing gap between the north and the south, we can see that it comes right down to something called a mosquito that actually kills people

House debate   this for years, the feminist movement has been saying it for decades and women have been saying it for generations. It is nothing new. This is not a complicated situation. We are talking about providing women with the tools they need to overcome income inequality in Canada. The past four

House debate  . The Conference Board notes that since the mid-1990s, income inequality in Canada grew at one of the fastest rates in the industrial world; faster than in the US. He further states: The average top 100 CEOs' compensation was $6.6 million in 2009, 155 times the average worker's wage

Citizen's Arrest and Self-defence Act   problems, child mortality and high income inequality. That is the direct correlation with homicide as a crime. We can do everything to dump people into prisons, but we need to be addressing the root causes of crime, which are unsafe neighbourhoods and high income inequality

Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act  , but it is heartless to attack seniors further. I found it interesting that at Davos last week, at the World Economic Forum, there were world leaders almost without exception saying that income inequality and the gap between rich and poor was an issue that needed to be addressed in countries

Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act   of growing income inequality and, more importantly, what our government has done to fix that. This troubling trend is affecting countries around the world, and Canada is no exception. The global economy is more integrated than ever in terms of trade, the job market and even monetary

Pensions   less than $20,000 per year. While other countries are trying to address the issue of income inequality, the gap between rich and poor, why are the Conservatives here in Canada making income inequality worse? Why the war on the poor?

Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act   approach. We do not want to see income inequality grow in our country. What was announced at Davos was nothing more than a further step to huge corporate interests such as we have seen with the corporate tax cuts. We have to be very clear for Canadians that there is an alternative. We