Status of Women committee  Yes, I'm glad you mentioned the infrastructure issue because in some of the European countries during the recession infrastructure funding was deliberately allocated toward building new facilities for care, for early childhood education, for elder care, and some infrastructure fu

Status of Women committee  Yes, this set of figures is a direct reflection of the fact that women have less full-time, full-year employment, and therefore have less eligibility for employment insurance. It also reflects the simultaneous fact of existing discrepancies in income and pay levels. Therefore, wo

Status of Women committee  Yes, this has been suggested, but if that were truly the purpose, then why is it that women who live in households where the couple's total income is $32,000 a year and less only get $14 per year? Similarly, for people who live in households where the incomes are in the middle r

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. Women who face all forms of violence, whether in the workplace or in their homes, have greater economic needs than women who do not face violence.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for that short question.

Status of Women committee  The first point I would make is that, first of all, it is fine to say that the purpose of these policies is to create choices, but the reality is that the notion of choice, when circumstances constrain the number of options available to people, are false choices. For example, th

Status of Women committee  I'd be happy to. Reinvesting the $6.7 billion that I reference in these notes would have a beneficial impact on the Canadian economy, because it would, first of all, provide resources for more women to meet their own economic needs and those of their families by entering into p

Status of Women committee  I would recommend that this committee look for political strategies that would increase the sharing of unpaid work. Human beings have to perform a certain amount of unpaid work every day in order to support themselves and their households. But it has been very clearly demonstrate

Status of Women committee  Yes, it will have a negative effect in a number of ways. First of all, the $2.7 billion federal cost for it will probably be accompanied by something like a $1.7 billion cost provincially and territorially, wherever other governments enact income splitting along with the federal

Status of Women committee  Yes, I can briefly comment on that. The radical cutting of the points of service for women in Canada has had a devastating effect on the ability of community groups to gain access to funding that assists in the development of prosperity-enhancing projects. In addition, the clo

Status of Women committee  Yes. To the extent that women in Canada do have access to economic support and resources, it's increasingly being taken up just with survival spending. Women on social assistance really don't have enough money to get child care that helps them get out the door in order to take a

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Thank you very much for inviting me to speak on these issues today. I am very pleased to see that the focus is on not just questions of leadership, but on questions of economic leadership and women's prosperity. There is a strong connection among all of these concepts

Status of Women committee  I'll just make one quick point, and it is that it certainly would have to be structured with some sense that people can't decide two or three months after they've discovered they're pregnant that they can get a job for the six months that it takes. It could probably be designed a

Status of Women committee  I'd like to just make two comments following on that. If it is possible for this committee or Parliament to take the kind of responsible action that really does need to be taken, then simply publishing data more frequently is not going to do the job. Status of Women Canada has

Status of Women committee  There are a couple of things I would point out. The first is that the figure of $500 million is, in this context, extremely small. When the federal government was very serious about improving employment among aboriginal people, something like $636 million was aimed just at aborig