Human Resources committee  Yes. It seems that in this move to the global economy, everybody is looking for ways to cut costs, and because the compensation systems are funded through premiums by employers, employers have been trying to find ways to reduce those costs for disabled workers. The impact has b

Human Resources committee  Yes, the two options we're trying to look at more closely are a guaranteed annual income and a universal disability insurance program. I'm going to be speaking later this weekend on a universal disability insurance program. Regardless of the disability--and I think you heard a

Human Resources committee  I'm going to come at this from a different angle. I'm going to build on what John Rae talked about. If the federal government could be a model employer, maybe they could put some of those dollars into training management. We have consistently seen policies and practices that are

Human Resources committee  Looking around the world in terms of what seems to work best for hiring people with disabilities, the German system seems to have become the best. They have a system of grant levies--6% of your workforce needs to be people with disabilities, and if you don't have that, you pay 20

Human Resources committee  Yes, I'd like to follow up. Working at the national level and learning from our representatives from Quebec, I think we can learn a lot from the process in Quebec, where they have a philosophical system that says citizens have an important role to play in the community; and the

Human Resources committee  That's a very good question. It really speaks to the role of the federal government in this area. In order to design programs that are effective for people with disabilities, it's key to involve those people in the design of the program. The United Nations commission that was l

Human Resources committee  Thank you for inviting us here today. My name is Steve Mantis. I'm the secretary of the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups. We have 21 member organizations across Ontario, from Ottawa to Thunder Bay, where I'm from, to southern Ontario. I guess I've been doing this too