Status of Women committee  Yes, I'm in northern Sweden.

Status of Women committee  No, I arrived yesterday.

Status of Women committee  Actually I'm extremely aware of all of these programs and I have been living continuously in Canada. In 2013, I did visit as a visiting scholar at Umea University in northern Sweden, but I came right back after that three months. In fact, I produced a multi-hundred page detailed

Status of Women committee  Well, yes. It depends entirely on the composition of the family income overall. First of all, single women and single parents will get absolutely no benefit from income splitting, which is a $2 billion program for 2015. Secondly, unless they're in the top 15% of income earners, t

Status of Women committee  What's working there is the list that I started down. It contains a total of 15 particular programs, all of which need to be mounted by and monitored by governments. It begins with putting effective non-discrimination laws and programs into place with commissions and compliance b

Status of Women committee  I don't need to have a wish list, because I would prefer to rely on the scientific studies that have produced information on what actually works. What actually works is to make it perfectly clear to universities and colleges that they are there to serve everyone in the country, w

Status of Women committee  Many needs assessments have already been carried out, and it would not be difficult to estimate what it would cost to set up a truly autonomous status of women committee in the federal government with its own investigative powers similar to those of the Auditor General of Canada

Status of Women committee  The first big problem with having a wage gap like that is that it means women are not working full time, full year, permanently, but are in much more precarious positions. We're not taking full advantage, as an economy, as a society, of all of the talent that has been so laboriou

Status of Women committee  On every level. First of all, I would point out that the Canadian Academies has already done a very comprehensive study that encompasses the kinds of problems that exist in the STEM educational areas in Canada. It's a very recent report. It contains a lot of very concrete propos

Status of Women committee  Move to the question period. Thank you very much.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for this opportunity to speak to you about this. I am not going to focus on the question of skilled trades so much as address the educational trends concerning STEM-area educational programs. I would like to pick this up by noting that despite all of the recom

Finance committee  The recommendation is to eliminate all tax provisions that essentially reward a couple for making sure that one of the parents spends a significant amount of work time in unpaid work activities, such as supervising children's play. This puts a lot of pressure specifically on wo

Finance committee  The most important and sensible thing to do would be to not do this, and to take the additional $2.6 billion per year that this would cost and put it toward the most important benefit that would assist people trying to lift their children out of poverty going forward. If it wer

Finance committee  It's a waste of taxpayers' money and it essentially rewards people who are already in very privileged positions.

Finance committee  Yes. First of all, any non-refundable tax credit will have exactly the same footprint as the outline I have included in my written submissions, showing that the very lowest income people will get either no credit or will get very little credit. As you go up the income scale, the