Human Resources committee  Just to be clear, there is one condition around the CST, that no province can establish a residence requirement in relation to social assistance. This goes right back to the 19th century when relief was a ticket to somewhere else, not your town. Should we have some principles as

Human Resources committee  I would like to see them stated broadly in the way that the Canada Health Act establishes the five conditions. I would like to see some broad conditions, but I think it's important to understand that nothing works without the consent of all the governments we're talking about. Wh

Human Resources committee  The federal government has been engaged in a homelessness strategy since the late 1990s. The only way that the federal government could proceed using those funds would be to be more directed in the way those funds are spent, not simply for more shelter but in other directions as

Human Resources committee  You were asking about measurement. There are a series of studies that have been done municipally across the country. It's possible, using that data, to get a broad picture of the number of people who are homeless. It's clear when you're working at the municipal level that there i

Human Resources committee  Good morning. Thank you. What I wanted to do was review briefly some of the different kinds of work I've done on the issue of poverty and poverty reduction. I hope to give the committee an idea of what kinds of areas have been addressed, and if they have questions in those areas