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Human Resources committee  Yes, there's no question that if you freeze the premium rates at this stage, you're going to not add insult to injury. But you've done that. You've done that in the legislation. It doesn't even get looked at until 2011. We're not talking about whether you're going to raise the pr

April 28th, 2009Committee meeting

Armine Yalnizyan

Human Resources committee  I completely understand your concern on that, and I would concur that there other supportive programs you could put into place. You know, we de-institutionalized an awful lot of people about 10 to 20 years ago. When I grew up there were no homeless people on the street. Part of i

April 28th, 2009Committee meeting

Armine Yalnizyan

Human Resources committee  It's quite clear we have the mechanisms in place, because, as I mentioned to you, different jurisdictions have cut various rates of poverty in half. What we need is the federal government to step up to the plate and be a partner in this poverty reduction measure and take leadersh

April 28th, 2009Committee meeting

Armine Yalnizyan

Human Resources committee  I think you'll get political will as people start losing their mortgages and losing their pensions and suddenly all the progress we've made on poverty reduction among the over-65s balloons out of control: public pensions, and improving GIS, OAS, or CPP, doing something about the

April 28th, 2009Committee meeting

Armine Yalnizyan

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Beaudin. I forwarded to the clerk a document that— Sorry, I can't do this in French. I was going to try. I left a document with the clerk saying that w hen we were designing the stimulus package we indicated that we felt the federal government had a leadership

April 28th, 2009Committee meeting

Armine Yalnizyan

Human Resources committee  I believe you do need legislative changes. I don't think you can do it simply through regulations, but I may be incorrect. That's why it has to be a parliamentary process. The budget bill was very specific about how the Employment Insurance Act was changed to accommodate the exte

April 28th, 2009Committee meeting

Armine Yalnizyan

Human Resources committee  I would like to just reinforce that there are specific things we can do. There is wide consensus that to have a uniform entrance rate of 360 hours across the country would let a lot more people in from the storm. Similarly, benefit levels are quite low at 55%. As the report that

April 28th, 2009Committee meeting

Armine Yalnizyan

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. It is a pleasure for me to be here today. I'm going to speak in English. I want to say that if I were giving this presentation to your committee six months or a year ago, it would be categorically a different tone from the one I want to use today. I can s

April 28th, 2009Committee meeting

Armine Yalnizyan

February 24th, 2009Committee meeting

Armine Yalnizyan

Status of Women committee  I'd actually like to echo what you were saying, Madam McLeod, about depressions begetting depressions. It is important not to overstate things, in a doom and gloom way, because it will beget a bad psychology. That's why the Great Depression was called the Great Depression. It was

February 24th, 2009Committee meeting

Armine Yalnizyan

Status of Women committee  As you and many of the members of your committee probably know, all of the EI information is available in an administrative format. In the United States, they produce weekly bulletins on what is happening with EI. There might be an argument, actually, to work with the department

February 24th, 2009Committee meeting

Armine Yalnizyan

Status of Women committee  I have to say that I understand your rage, having been a feminist economist for a very long time and getting nowhere—in fact, losing ground—for a very long time. It is challenging. But can I just say that we are now in a new moment? The crisis does permit us to talk as reasonab

February 24th, 2009Committee meeting

Armine Yalnizyan

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for your question, Madam O'Neill-Gordon. I don't know if you remember this, but in the 1984 election that was won by Brian Mulroney, the campaign focused on “jobs, jobs, jobs”, and by 1985 and 1986, his campaign had turned into “training, training, training”

February 24th, 2009Committee meeting

Armine Yalnizyan

Status of Women committee  May I also add, Madam Zarac, that it was very welcome to see the expansion of access to EI training in this budget. The fact is, it is desperately needed, so it needed to be expanded. But the truth is, given that we've just seen a 16% increase in the number of EI beneficiaries wh

February 24th, 2009Committee meeting

Armine Yalnizyan

Status of Women committee  But it shouldn't be just EI triggered, because we have these enormous labour market shortages.

February 24th, 2009Committee meeting

Armine Yalnizyan