Finance committee  I'll just emphasize the point that when we're looking at the current set-up of the CPP and many of the statistics to describe what gaps there are, we're talking about the baby boomers, who have a very different history, a very different history with child drop-out provisions in p

Finance committee  Certainly.

Finance committee  Thank you very much. Instead of trying to repeat myself, I will just quickly summarize some of the points I made. I will also note that my speaking notes are available online, as are some informal notes to questions that I commonly receive about CPP. To summarize what I was say

Finance committee  I'm glad you could come back to give me an opportunity to speak with you today. Thank you. I will take this opportunity to flag some general concerns I have with Bill C-26, with a focus on individuals with low earnings. Over the past few years, several researchers have expressed

Finance committee  I shall do that. I have a habit there. Thinking of the benefits to expanding the working income tax benefit, as a method of prefunding retirement income through the current generation's tax revenues, we reduce intergenerational transfers. I like this approach. I wish we had forc

Finance committee  I think this comes back to what Finn was mentioning about the lump of labour fallacy. There's really absolutely no evidence that there's a connection between youth labour market outcomes and the size of the labour force that's taken up by older workers. There's not a direct conne

Finance committee  I think the key piece of information is a set of wages by jobs, what type of investment goes into a given job in terms of time and cost, and then what they can expect in terms of a lifetime wage after coming out of that type of training. Unless you know people in those jobs, you

Finance committee  I'd do much the same, but there we need to focus a bit more on getting students to fill out the applications, to apply for university and the trades while they're there, to give them assistance in doing it, and also to make sure they are aware of what types of policies there are

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  I haven't done a lot of specific work on it, so I have nothing to add.

Finance committee  I think that in many cases we can find hard goals. Rather than creating several programs to achieve that goal, we can have one program that is easy for everyone to understand. In terms of wasted programs, I think the Canada learning bond is an excellent example to learn from. T

Finance committee  So very briefly, obviously going to school and not doing drugs is good for your job. That should always be known. The wages generally have been increasing for youth. We have consistent data since 1997 on that looking at median wages, and the wages of high school students are incl

Finance committee  Definitely. I actually took the list that I created in my written brief...half of that comes from the budget 2014 document itself, proudly displaying many of those programs. The rest of it just comes from programs that I'm familiar with. Each year I teach a tax policy class t

Finance committee  Sure. This is a situation where we have a bit of a lag in training time. The shortage, as we think of it, really started a few years ago and it takes time for people to get through that market, and yes, it's easier for employers to pick up the temporary foreign workers. But again

Finance committee  As a mother of a toddler in Ontario, I can appreciate the costs that we have here. Child care is really vital for women to enter into the labour force when their children are younger. When you look at the data I showed, for instance, on the wage gaps between men and women, when