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

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   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   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

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  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

Public Accounts committee  One thing we looked at in the specific COVID benefits program was whether these programs helped meet some of the objectives—one of which was to get money out to individuals and businesses quickly—whether efforts were made to mitigate poverty and income inequalities, and whether

Public Accounts committee   in 2020 to align with international best practices to limit prepayment controls and rely on attestations allowed the government to get support to Canadians and employers quickly while meeting its goal of preventing an increase in poverty and income inequalities and helping the economy

Fall Economic Statement   and we kept income inequality lower than it would have been. We can have an independent monetary policy. Our mothers taught us that just because all of our friends are jumping off a bridge does not mean we have to.

Transport committee   that when workers are members of unions, they're able to leverage their collective bargaining power to negotiate on a level playing field and improve their terms of employment. It has been shown, repeatedly, that countries with higher union density have lower levels of income inequality

Finance committee  .—which provided a tax cut package that was extremely large, in recent memory, and was not targeted, giving those at the top far more money than those at the bottom—that it was not only inflationary but it would accelerate existing income inequalities. There you have it. I'm

Cost of Living Relief Act, No. 1  . When I was first elected, one of the big pieces that I said I wanted to tackle was income inequality. I said it was something that was very important. I heard that. People in my community were raising it. We were talking about the additional measures that are happening today because

National Strategy Respecting Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Act  , that we address the enormous income inequality that is growing in Canada and globally, that we address the needs that we express in terms of human rights, but also the rights that were missing from the charter. We spoke of the importance of addressing this gap through environmental

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, yes, absolutely. From the very beginning, we saw the issue of income inequality. It is one of the reasons we put a tax on Canada's wealthiest 1% at the beginning of the mandate. If we take a look at this particular budget, we will see a luxury tax of just over

Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1   pandering to the idea that the government is tackling income inequality without actually doing it. I think it is critical, when we talk about $170 million being a lot of money, as the parliamentary secretary just did, to realize it is not a lot of money compared to the billions