Human Resources committee  No. It just seems that we're expected.... The market economy ebbs and flows, and we can't survive under that kind of stuff. Somebody comes in with another idea and then, between that and political agendas, we get squished. I mean, single mothers were literally called out as...

Human Resources committee  I think because of the state that we're in right now, if there's anything we need, we need money in our hands. We can't be living in the places where we're living. We can't be continuing to eat that kind of food. Yes, a guaranteed income, absolutely; I really think that would bo

Human Resources committee  For right now, it should be special measures. There should be special measures. This has been going on for 13 years. I can't work 40 hours any more. I'm lucky if I can work 20. Right now I should be in Chapingo, Mexico, doing research on rural women, making $35,000 a year, he

Human Resources committee  I think the food bank is just another band-aid solution. When we start putting up food banks, we are throwing our whole ideology right out the window. Give people a guaranteed income, non-taxable, with full health benefits, and then we're not going to need food banks. On home own

Human Resources committee  As long as we don't have to keep on coming back here and talking about poverty.... Let's just end it. Do you know what I mean? If we get it into the Charter of Rights that you protect us so that this never happens again.... It's billions of dollars that we're going cost us just o

Human Resources committee  Yes, because the band-aid things.... I mean, how many times have you met within the last 50 years? I think when MacDonald met, sometime in the eighties, he got paid $600 a day for doing it, while a single person on welfare was getting $19. We're kind of tired of all of this.

Human Resources committee  For example, for a single adult, I believe it's $24,000 a year. If a person can be assured of that.... I was talking with people I worked with, who said, “Well, so then we get taxed after that?” I said yes, and they said that's fair. You have to see the conditions that we've been

Human Resources committee  No. Basically you go in, get your prescription, and leave. With a naturopath it's an hour, which is more comprehensive.

Human Resources committee  I think we need a human rights agency to help us, because we really have been behind at the UN. It's disgraceful. We didn't even sign the indigenous rights papers. We are a disgrace in the international community. It was embarrassing. When it came to the point on violence again

Human Resources committee  I'll start by telling you that in 1995, when the 21.6% came off the welfare cheques, the Fraser Institute, which made that estimate, also allotted only 1,000 calories a day to live on. I know that was true, because I lived it. In two months, there was no food in the house. By the