Human Resources committee  Right, they're poor. Basically the most direct way would be to alter the OAS regulation so as not to have this residency requirement. A change like that is going to depend on the cost for the government to implement it. We need tools to calculate this cost and to integrate the da

Human Resources committee  Yes from me.

Human Resources committee  Right. Absolutely. What I was getting to was that—

Human Resources committee   that we're ready, which is what I think. I don't think any member of this committee thinks we're ready, and that's why we're discussing this issue. Dr. MacDonald, you mentioned the synergy. We just heard from Ms. Mackenzie, and she's the advocate for seniors. We heard from the federal

Human Resources committee  The problem is that we have so many disconnects between all these different studies that it is difficult to bring the information together and get a storyline and come up with effective solutions. When analysts come to these problems, their difficulty will always be data. Fortu

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Brian. Just to broaden that a bit, at Ryerson I'm actually with the National Institute on Ageing as well. I've been doing research for quite a long time. I always find it very surprising that when we look at retirement income security for Canadian seniors, we always

Finance committee  %. I want to echo the comments of Mr. MacDonald that these investments pay off. They pay off for productivity, they pay off for women, and they pay off for those women's families. If women are bringing home a paycheque that's 30% higher, that goes into the family budget

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I have two questions, and I think my colleague Mr. Sorbara will have at least one. I would first like to address Dr. McInturff. Madam McInturff, thank you very much for a particularly forceful presentation. I've long learned that investing

Environment committee   a little closer to home. It's just two doors down; the Sir John A. Macdonald Building. It looks a little at what some of those inherently sustainable features are, and it also looks at how careful analysis and supplementary means of updating a building's performance—its comfort

Public Safety committee   Safety, as well as Ruth Lanius, who is here from Western University. I'm going to start with Dr. Lanius by video conference, followed by Ms. MacDonald and Mr. DeJong. Dr. Lanius, please go ahead for 10 minutes.

International Trade committee  Thank you very much. I thank the committee for inviting me, for I have a deep and enduring interest in the subject of what Adam Smith called “the wealth of nations” and the concomitant principles of trade, foreign direct investment, and comparative advantage within the rules-bas

Fisheries committee   exclusive legislative authority over seacoast and inland fisheries, as one of “the great questions which affect the general interests of the Confederacy as a whole”, to the national Parliament. Those are the words of John A. Macdonald, stated during the Canadian Parliament debates

Natural Resources committee   responsibilities, which arguably are a bit different from other parts of Canada. There's a gentleman I believe you may have heard about in academic circles, a gentleman by the name of Dr. Ken Coates. He is involved with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. He has written quite a bit about

Finance committee   an impression on me. Of course my point, and the focus of this committee, is on how we grow the economy. In terms of the work in the north and the ice—and it actually dovetails nicely with Ron MacDonald's work—climate change is impacting the opportunities and the challenges in Canada's

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. I will read from my prepared statement. Canada's history of attempting to balance human rights against internal security stretches back to the late 19th century when Prime Minister John A. Macdonald hired a number of undercover detectives to keep watch