Human Resources committee  I have to say that there's no single thing that would help all of those groups you've mentioned. The single measure that would help the broadest sweep of people would be reforms to EI, but that would not touch all of the groups you've mentioned.

Human Resources committee  Recent immigrants, with whom you are concerned, are a part of a category of new labour market entrants, which include young men and women as well. We know that in the last 10 to 15 years, when you look at labour market trends, wage rates and also the permanence of jobs have decli

Human Resources committee  Actually it's vis-à-vis a comment Mr. Komarnicki made at the outset.

Human Resources committee  Mr. Komarnicki made the very important point that you can only spend what you've got. I would like to draw attention to the fact that this government has spent $220 billion since January 23, 2006, on tax cuts. That creates an awful lot of space that could have been spent on doing

Human Resources committee  No, I will pass, thank you.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is Canada's leading progressive think tank, supported by more than 10,000 individual and institutional members across the country, with offices in Ottawa, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Regina, and Halifax. Thank you very

Human Resources committee  I think the answer to that question, Mr. Savage, is if the government would be willing to work with you to improve this piece of legislation to actually help more people, because we are talking about hundreds of thousands of people. The other shoe of the recession may fall, but p

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Madame Folco, for the question. We know this recession has been dubbed, in both the United States and Canada, as a “he-cession”. We know that 71% of the people who have lost their jobs in this country thus far have been men, and women are part of the “she-co

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Madame Minna. As I said in my opening comments, even the most generous interpretation of who is affected by this legislation leaves two-thirds of those who have lost their jobs and who are in this category unaddressed and does not address anybody who lost their job in

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The CCPA is Canada's leading progressive think tank supported by 10,000 individual and institutional members across Canada, with offices in Ottawa, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Regina, and Halifax. Thank you for inviting our views today on how to prepare the next f

Finance committee  I think it could be in the way we have suggested. You could extend this and reorient the tax credit. There's already another measure the federal government has put into place. That could be amplified to make sure that more landlords and renters can take advantage of it. At the

Finance committee  Merci. I thank you very much, Senator...not yet “Senator” Brison, right?—

Finance committee  —for bringing forward this opportunity. I thank very much the whole process that permits us to talk about what is perhaps one of the defining issues, not only for Canada but around the world, on the future of democratic capitalism and globalization. Don't ask me, ask the World B

Finance committee  Some changes were introduced yesterday. Pursuing a low-wage strategy is a disaster for Canada. It needs to be further revised, and strengthening the role of labour market policies cannot be stressed enough. A correlation between unionization and greater equality has been well doc

Finance committee  Good middle-class jobs can come from anywhere. Around the world, whether you're talking about IT, high-technology information jobs or resource-based industries, we see that it depends on how you treat the environment for labour relations. Canada has been pursuing a low-wage strat