Human Resources committee  Social inclusion or social exclusion definitely should be measured. You may be familiar with the United Nations definition of poverty, which is based on what they call a human rights definition, and it talks about being poor as being excluded from society, that social inclusion

Human Resources committee  I think it's too simplistic to think it's a choice between the market basket measure and the LICO. There are all kinds of different gradations of this. For example, international comparisons are based on income less than 60% of the median, so they don't use the LICO, and they don

Human Resources committee  I think a national strategy is preferable because it focuses the energy. Quebec is a unique case in that it was the first jurisdiction to implement a comprehensive anti-poverty strategy, and it's been going for several years now. It produces an annual report. It's doing very we

Human Resources committee  I wouldn't suggest any specific program, but I would say that it has to be a national strategy; it has to involve the provinces and the federal government, because so many of the initiatives fall within provincial jurisdiction; it has to be transparent; it has to involve all stak

Human Resources committee  Yes, the Nordic countries do that best. You won't be surprised to hear that. They have very good social support systems and they assume--as I think we should too--that women who have children are doing it on behalf of all of us. We wouldn't want them to stop doing that, so we sho

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. First of all, I should make clear that I'm not here representing the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. I'm a self-employed independent consultant, although with my research I am associated with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. However, I'm