Status of Women committee  As you would say in English, all of the above. Increasing the guaranteed minimum income threshold would be a very good help. But there's more than improvements to the CPP. I think we've already conducted that kind of reform in Quebec, with regard to the old age pension, which co

Status of Women committee  Perhaps I could go back a little to the recommendations that the federation made at the end of its document. We obviously repeat that the transfers made by the federal government to the provinces are very important for social programs, for the possibility for the provinces to hav

Status of Women committee  Those investments stem from a societal choice that we should make. The current fashion tends more toward the argument that the debt is so enormous that social programs increase our debt and that we're paying too much in taxes. We must make societal choices and invest. Instead of

Status of Women committee  I'd like to talk more about the minimum wage. Today, we presented the short version of our brief, since we only had 10 minutes to present it. Soon you will have the full version translated into your language. In the fall of 2006, Mr. Harry W. Arthurs, of the Federal Labour Stand

Status of Women committee  Yes, that's for sure. I want to close by saying that, when we meet with our elected provincial politicians, they will once again advance the argument that they don't have enough money and that they can't meet our requests. When a better division is done with the provinces... The

Status of Women committee  I can supplement that. The universality aspect of the programs is very important for us. In Quebec, this is a choice that we've made, that is to say that the family allowance is universal and there are targeted measures for low-income families. In addition, child care services a

Status of Women committee  We were clearly invited here at the request of committee members because you and the committee had realized that young women's present very much influenced their future. We read your documents. We did our homework. So it's obviously in that sense that we're talking about having

Status of Women committee  So it would ultimately be a recognition of the years that would be excluded from pension calculations.

Status of Women committee  All that obviously has a major impact on the consumption spending power of single-parent families. In recent years, major tax gains have been made in Quebec under social and family policies. Among other things, the payment of support for children is a much more generous measure