Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition signed by several residents of Hochelaga and the surrounding ridings. It states that Canadian families are working harder than ever but still struggle to make ends meet, that a decent minimum wage would help combat growing income

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1   to vote against these types of initiatives to ensure there will be less income inequality?

The Budget  . However, when we are out of recession and see growth, the Liberals and NDP say we should still have deficits and more spending. When is it ever okay to stop borrowing money from future generations of Canadians? When it comes to income inequality, nothing has done more to lift people

The Budget   reach the $25-billion target. The government is trying to make us believe that it is tackling income inequality, but it is protecting tax havens. When the Minister of National Revenue and the Prime Minister give us the statistics on how many investigations have been launched and how

Poverty   because the measure applies only to those who turned 65 on or after January 1. We are talking about 56,000 seniors who are living on less than $10,000 a year. This is unacceptable. Income inequality is our society's most flagrant injustice—

Business of Supply   political will to reverse the trend of rising income inequality, which began decades ago and has continued under both Conservative and Liberal governments. There are a number of things we could do. We need to change the corporate tax rules that allow for the use of shell companies. We

International Trade  Madam Speaker, I had the privilege of going with the member for Essex to her riding. I saw first-hand the impact NAFTA has had in her community over the last 24 years. First and foremost, I reiterate, for the House's attention, that the Prime Minister has made income inequality

International Trade   labour side agreement would do nothing to change the alarming trend of growing income inequality in our country. However, the Conservative government pressed on, and today we know the harsh impact of this trade deal on working people. Since 1994, successive governments have

Human Resources committee  In your presentation, you spoke briefly about how the OECD has documented the polarization of the labour market. How is Canada, and more particularly Quebec, affected by income inequality, the gap in which is growing larger and larger?

Business of Supply   a difference to income inequality. One of the first initiatives this government undertook, headed by the Minister of Finance, was when we decided that there was going to be a tax increase for the one per cent of Canada's wealthiest. What did the joint opposition do? New Democrats

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 2   force, by looking at the four areas of income inequality, affordable housing, food insecurity, and health inequities. There is an old African proverb that states, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others.” This government knows that working together

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 2   into the workforce. It will also reduce income inequality and help to reduce poverty in this country. In addition to assisting working Canadians, we are acting on our priority of supporting communities' most vulnerable people: children and families in need of additional resources. We are doing

Human Resources committee   that I didn't get to say at the time—is that what's also happening in incomes in general, particularly earnings, is being driven by what's happening in the labour market, and that's a quite rapidly growing income inequality since the 1980s—again, far more so in the United States than

Business of Supply   that she regularly uses her food money to cover her utilities or medication costs. That simply is not right, yet we see it in all of our constituency offices every day. Earlier this week, when we debated tax fairness in the House, I spoke about the true unfairness of income inequality

Agriculture committee  First, we heard a great deal about income inequality during the June food summit, and I think that should be taken very seriously. A significant part of the problem with access to food in Canada is really about income. Many of the other costs in people's lives are inflexible, so