Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. It's also a good opportunity to come back to Tony's questions about CPP. One of the really neat things about CPP is that it has a child-rearing dropout provision that recognizes the time and effort it takes for women to raise children where they can't be in

Human Resources committee  Thank you. That's an interesting question, and it's interesting that you refer to that paper, because he talks about some trends for which other explanations have been offered by Mr. Picot this morning as well. I think that emphasizes that a lot of these matters are quite compl

Human Resources committee  Very quickly, on the aboriginal issue--and I think it also gives me a chance to come back to Lynne's question, because they're linked--the recent report we did, Time to Act, shows there is a lot of positive development happening. There is an incredible hunger in this country. I

Human Resources committee  On how much it would take to raise people to the poverty line, I can't give you the figure, but it is regularly published in Poverty Profile. That's one of the things we do, and it's based on LICOs. I'm not sure if it's based on pre- and post-tax.... It's also important to look a

Human Resources committee  I have just a one-second answer on that. Our poverty profile historical series calculates LICOs, and percentages below the LICO and around the LICO, so we've done that historically over a while. You can see who is 50% below, for example.

Human Resources committee  I think it's a question of 10 minutes. Almost all the plans everywhere internationally, from Burkina Faso to Sweden, have gender equality as a central tenet of an anti-poverty strategy. It's part of the UN framework for doing things. I don't see why Canada would want to do anyt

Human Resources committee  If I could just add to that a little bit, yes, as these people have said, the other countries went out and, to my knowledge, a number of the.... The United Kingdom, for example, did a major consultation and asked people about measures. They were looking for one, and they realized

Human Resources committee  We'll try to get one of those. I also have two copies, one in English and one in French, of the The Hidden Welfare System. This is all we have left too, except for a few copies in our archives. We can leave these with the clerk.

Human Resources committee  Agreed. Yes, I've got a lot to cover, and it's going slowly, it feels to me. There's a lot in the work the National Council has done on solving poverty that looks at things more from a governance model, which means that anything in there applies to any order of government or eve

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I would just add that Diane is our expert on welfare incomes, which is one of the things we haven't touched on yet. On behalf of our chairperson, John Rook in Calgary, and the members of the council, I want to thank the committee very much for this opportunity and re

Human Resources committee  I don't think—

Human Resources committee  We don't have the capacity to run the numbers to actually give you a number. What the council is interested in is just looking at whatever means might be available through the tax system to assist low-income workers, whether it's through a generalized tax exemption or some other

Human Resources committee  We've been talking to Caledon and to quite a number of partners as part of our push for a national anti-poverty strategy. What we're trying to do first is get it on the agenda, make everybody aware that we really need to look at this on a national basis across this country, and g

Human Resources committee  It's an area in which we're open to suggestion and to looking at the different ways it can be approached. One of the studies I would refer people to was done in Toronto. It's MISWAA, or “Modernizing Income Security for Working-Age Adults”, which was done by a whole collective of

Human Resources committee  What report do you mean, exactly?