Human Resources committee  Another important point is that we have in Canada started to take terms such as “child poverty” for granted. They have become entrenched; child poverty has become entrenched in our culture. Also, words like “the working poor”; we accept that there are going to be people who are w

Human Resources committee  It was 62% originally.

Human Resources committee  I'd like to mention that in the report I was involved in, called the MISWAA report, we recommended that two measures be undertaken. One is to take our various refundable tax credits that we have now--for example, between the federal government and the Province of Ontario, you h

Human Resources committee  I'll start by saying that in looking at Professor Sarlo's material, he has managed to persevere through what he considers to be bad data in order to come up with a poverty standard for a single person. If I've read it correctly, that standard is over $10,000 a year. Just to arr

Human Resources committee  I think the other important point is that the design of the universal child care benefit is one that looks at the income in the hands of the lowest-earning parent. It creates a real problem in the sense that you have families with one person who is working and another person who

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm here today to talk about the findings of the Task Force on Modernizing Income Security for Working-Age Adults, or MISWAA, which was formed in September 2004 by the Toronto City Summit Alliance,or TCSA, and St. Christopher House. The TCSA is a broad