Status of Women committee  It's actually an annual conference that many of our YWCAs run locally. We have a whole tool kit on how to do it, which we are happy to share with anyone at all, really.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Much has changed since male MPs responded with laughter and derision when MP Margaret Mitchell stood in the House of Commons in the early 1980s to demand that the government take action to stop domestic violence. Nevertheless, 25 years after the murders at l'École Pol

Finance committee  I don't know those as well, and you will have Martha Friendly on the next panel, who is very well versed on this. My recollection is that we are down near the bottom. I think we are ahead of the United States, but other than that I think we are the lowest in the amount spent on c

Finance committee  Actually, I said “vulnerable families”. From what I understand and from what I have read—and you have both the Fraser Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives saying that this is not a helpful policy—you basically must have one high-income earner to get a good be

Finance committee  They are aggressive measures in a tax sense. They benefit people in a higher tax bracket rather than people in a lower tax bracket. The national child benefit is means-assessed, if you want to say it that way. So it gives the most benefit to the most vulnerable, rather than being

Finance committee  That's right. You have to have a taxable income to benefit from them. I like them fine personally, but they are not a progressive tax.

Finance committee  Is that from a national child care system? I'm not getting a good translation here.

Finance committee  A national child benefit is simply a dollar amount that can be spent on anything. We're not saying to choose one or the other. I think you should maintain the national child benefit for families that are in need, and we need low-cost child care that is accessible across the count

Finance committee  I think the statistic we had from Quebec was a $5.1 billion increase in GDP. I think if you take that across the country, you will see that putting in a national child care system or a variety of systems that comprise a national system would actually increase Canada's GDP. That's

Finance committee  I think some of us are trying to, but it is a bit difficult to get the message out and, at least in current times, it tends to be pushed back towards a discussion of whether people should be at home and kids should be raised at home. There was a long five- or six-year period when

Finance committee  No, I'm sorry. I don't know.

Finance committee  I remember that.

Finance committee  It's hard to peer into another's mind.

Finance committee  Yes. I guess I think there's a failure to understand the need for changes in attitudes and the function that an inquiry would provide, much in the way the Truth and Reconciliation Commission provided an immense amount of learning and changes in attitude. You can see it throughout

Finance committee  Yes. Coupled with full-time work at $11 an hour, the enhanced benefit would enable a single parent with one child to move out of poverty. This would also eliminate multiple layers of administration, which increase red tape and expense. YWCA Canada urges the federal government n