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Finance committee Yes, that's true. I think that is a good summary. The fundamental problem that women in Canada face is that they have not been able to close one of the biggest income gaps in the OECD. The biggest barrier really is this insistence that everyone should raise their own children per
September 28th, 2017Committee meeting
Prof. Kathleen Lahey
Finance committee I would agree, but there are two problems here. The first is that the reasonableness test is really well litigated and will work in this situation, but it basically then buys the change in justification for the small business corporation rules in the first place, and says that th
September 28th, 2017Committee meeting
Prof. Kathleen Lahey
Finance committee Yes, most definitely there are advantages, but what has to be recognized is that the advantages are not gender equal, and they're not equal by age, either. This is a system that is actually contributing to the growing income inequality between women and men on an after-tax basis
September 28th, 2017Committee meeting
Prof. Kathleen Lahey
Finance committee Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to speak to the proposed changes that are being considered by the government in relation to the small business corporations sector. I'd like to approach this issue from a slightly different perspective, which is to stand back an
September 28th, 2017Committee meeting
Professor Kathleen Lahey
Status of Women committee It is a pervasive cultural challenge, and it begins with regulation of advertising, which increasingly stereotypes women as being more concerned about keeping their nails intact than thinking about driving heavy equipment. There is that. It is well established in educational rese
February 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Prof. Kathleen Lahey
Status of Women committee No. The numbers are going backwards.
February 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Prof. Kathleen Lahey
Status of Women committee The university does everything that it can, but the Canadian Human Rights Commission does not. It does not enforce the rules. It produces results that are insulting and that put the blame on women if they do mind the harassment that they generally experience when they are the fir
February 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Prof. Kathleen Lahey
Status of Women committee It's very low. It's been going backwards seriously. The women who do graduate are increasingly focusing on the earth and biological sciences, and not on the hard-core built environmental and chemical engineering environments. They are also falling out of computer programming, whi
February 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Prof. Kathleen Lahey
Status of Women committee I think the most important thing to do is to get women into a position of complete parity when it comes to paid work. Just with respect to Alberta, I did a small pay equity exercise to look at the overall revenue impact of doing that. One of the slides that I copied into the hand
February 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Prof. Kathleen Lahey
Status of Women committee It's a complex system because women's work lives define what their eligibility is going to be for all forms of pension support, with the exception of old age security, GIS, and the other low-income supports. On the one hand, what you see is deterioration in the quality and level
February 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Prof. Kathleen Lahey
Status of Women committee The federal compliance mechanisms for universities have no teeth. I cannot even get access to the pay equity figures for my own faculty. I have to get them from my dean. If my dean doesn't want to give them to me, then I can't see them.
February 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Prof. Kathleen Lahey
Status of Women committee That is not correct. Pension income splitting is something that is absolutely all the way up to 50% of total pension income. The only sort of—
February 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Prof. Kathleen Lahey
Status of Women committee No. No, you may be thinking of the parental income splitting mechanism that was in effect for only a short time.
February 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Prof. Kathleen Lahey
Status of Women committee The $2,000 cap would be for the other form of pension income splitting, which is available with respect to a pension credit—
February 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Prof. Kathleen Lahey
Status of Women committee —but I'm talking about pension income splitting, which goes all the way up to 50% of total income—
February 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Prof. Kathleen Lahey