Status of Women committee  Absolutely. I'll give you a basic example in terms of food costs, food security, and childhood obesity. They're saying that low-income children actually have a higher rate of obesity , because the food that's cheaper to put on the table is often high in calories and high in fat

Status of Women committee  Certainly it's a step in the right direction.

Status of Women committee  Simply because you'd be receiving benefits for a longer period of time and you wouldn't be exhausting them so quickly. The problem is the eligibility requirement. The main concern is that--

Status of Women committee  Yes. Actually, the woman with whom I was speaking on this issue said.... The people had been laid off from the school. They were school techs, such library techs or teacher assistants in an elementary school, and somebody had the phone number for the Service Canada office, so th

Status of Women committee  Right. The five weeks, as I believe Jane Stinson has said, is a step in the right direction, but much more work needs to be done, and that is why we brought forward these recommendations. Of course, receiving benefits for a longer period of time is a benefit to those who are elig

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. I know you've had Armine Yalnizyan and Kathleen Lahey come in, and they gave their testimonies about women's contribution to the economy, either through caregiving, unpaid labour, or paid labour. To cut it down to brass tacks, if you give funds to people who have lo

Status of Women committee  EI was supposed to put money in the pockets of the unemployed so that they could continue buying to counter the effects of the downturn in the economy, as we all know. FAFIA submits that increasing women's access to EI benefits and increasing EI benefit rates will promote women's