Status of Women committee  I think it would be helpful, but certainly it's not critical. I can try my best to walk you through it.

Human Resources committee  A number of years ago, Statistics Canada made the decision to start using Canadian's income tax data in its estimates of income. That has improved the quality of our data quite a lot. As a result, we somewhat rely on the tax system for moving the full suite of income indicators a

Human Resources committee  We, at Statistics Canada, don't have any figures that would make it possible to answer that question.

Human Resources committee  Thank you for the question. I don't have a specific answer for you. However, Statistics Canada, in partnership with other departments, is currently working to develop measures for poverty and other areas. That's all I can tell you.

Human Resources committee  Yes, of course. As I mentioned, we are currently discussing the issue of poverty with some departments. We are available, and we have considerable expertise when it comes to assessment measures. We are ready and willing to contribute.

Human Resources committee  There's no particular reason. When we think of after-tax income, we think of it as having three major components: those from market income, those from government transfers, and those from taxes. Of course, taxes by and large reduce after-tax income. A similar graph could have bee

Human Resources committee  Statistics Canada only produces relative measures of poverty. There are other absolute measures of poverty that are often discussed either in the media or in the academic literature, but none have been taken up by Statistics Canada particularly. We do compute these on an on-reque

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  That's a great question, and it's often raised as a criticism of the low-income measure. I guess I would answer by saying it's multi-faceted. The situation you described, going from year to year, does in fact happen when you look at the statistics on a year-over-year basis. The l

Human Resources committee  Yes, we can supply details.

Human Resources committee  I guess in my view, one can think of this from an accounting perspective, and the accounting perspective in my mind would be that, taking the market basket measure, for example, if anything drove up the prices of goods that were represented in the market basket measure from one y

Human Resources committee  If there were no other change in the income distribution, then yes, more people would fall below that threshold and the rate would increase. However, I want to underscore that I'm not making any connection between that arithmetic—

Human Resources committee  —and the carbon issue.