Status of Women committee  We need gender-based analysis in government policy-making.

Status of Women committee  Discrimination.

Status of Women committee  Being a person with disabilities, a racialized person.... If you're a woman and you're racialized, you have more discrimination than, say, I do.

Status of Women committee  One of the really big things that we can do is to add eight weeks of parental leave for fathers under a “use it or lose it” model, and that actually improves—

Status of Women committee  Yes, but Quebec has a model with an extra five weeks that only the second parent can take, so it's called “use it or lose it”.

Status of Women committee  What it does is rebalance the unpaid care workload at home.

Status of Women committee  Lack of decent work can be addressed by proactive employment standards enforcement. Manitoba has a model. You can make a complaint, and it doesn't have to be brought forward by the worker themselves.

Status of Women committee  That is a specific issue. Proactive labour standards enforcement: you can't be working at a temporary agency and being paid less than the person working next to you, and not getting the benefits, right?

Status of Women committee  I can help with that. In their official reports, StatsCan doesn't count child care as an involuntary reason, but a lot of—

Status of Women committee  —people who use Statistics Canada statistics do count child care as involuntary. When StatsCan puts out their statistics, they don't, because of a decision they've made. That would be the difference.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Let's help precarious workers. The most important thing that governments can do for precarious workers is to provide high-quality, universal public services, such as health care and child care. Almost as important, though, are effective employment standards legislatio

Finance committee  Right. It is my understanding that before 2012, after a period that they deemed a reasonable amount of time, if you can't find work at your old level, you would have to accept work at a lower level. It was also my understanding that this was not evenly applied throughout the cou

Finance committee  Yes. I know there was a campaign by child welfare groups who were campaigning to get the provinces to not claw that money back from parents on social assistance, but I'm not sure—

Finance committee  Yes. I don't know where it was. I haven't heard what the resolution is for children in care.

Finance committee  Hi. Thank you. I'm here on behalf of the 3.5 million members of the Canadian Labour Congress. I want to thank you for the opportunity to present our views on Bill C-29. The CLC brings together Canada's national and international unions along with the provincial and territoria