Finance committee  “Eat the cost of it”; I'm not sure what that means, Madame.

Finance committee  We already do that in the system, and this is nascent in the system as it is. We have parental leave. We have leave for child care.

Finance committee  Yes. It would be to build upon that precedent.

Finance committee  It is designed.... Maybe “paternalistic” is too strong a word, but children need the inputs from their parents, not just in the early years—

Finance committee  No. In my brief I suggested that we could put in personalized accounts in the system, so that—

Finance committee  No, the individuals themselves pay. I contribute to EI. I don't necessarily use it. A surplus is developed in that envelope. Then I have the freedom to use that surplus. The labour market is much more flexible than it was, and employers seem to have accommodated maternity and pa

Finance committee  Yes. If you don't do that, it seems the financing of the program should be tied more to the risk of unemployment. In effect, the current financing is a subsidy to firms that tend to lay off more.

Finance committee  Thank you very much for the question. To relate this to the previous discussion we had, Ms. Glover's discussion, inequality is rooted in the labour market, and the tax and transfer system is basically a bandage on top of that. What we want to build up is a high-pressure economy

Finance committee  I defer to Professor Boadway on this. I think this is absolutely correct.

Finance committee  Generally, the way labour economists think about this is the interaction between technical change and globalization. This began, probably in the late 1970s and early 1980s, to polarize the labour market. People who traditionally did routine tasks, whether they were physical or co

Finance committee  Good morning, everyone. My written submission focuses on concrete policy measures that are meant to speak to the fifth of the committee's terms of reference, to “provide recommendations on how best to improve equality of opportunity and prosperity for all Canadians”. I take eq