Finance committee  To go back to the report we just released this summer, we found that 44% of social workers experience threats or violence on the job. That's almost 50%. You are absolutely correct that those types of traumas, as well as vicarious trauma by seeing people go through these situation

Finance committee  Thank you very much for your question. I'm sorry, but I will answer in English.

Finance committee  In a blue-sky perfect world we would ask for all kinds of things, but we really felt that this was achievable, that this was a bite-sized piece, an achievable policy that we could actually get done that would really help people, especially young women in a female-dominated profes

Finance committee  Thank you very much for the question. We initiated a large-scale study that we just completed this summer. It was over a year of research. We found that across the country—and yes, acutely in rural and remote regions, but in urban areas as well—every single expert we spoke to as

Finance committee  Would you like to add something?

Finance committee  Thank you very much for the question. I just want to address how you phrased it. You said “more results”. Of course we would like more results for more money, but first we would just like to see where the money is being spent.

Finance committee  I think the main crux of the issue—this always surprises people when I say it—is the fact that the Canada social transfer gets put into general revenue. It could be used for potholes. We don't know, so the first step is knowing how it's used. Then we can get to outcomes. I will

Finance committee  Our organization did release a position paper in 2014 against specifically social impact bonds, knowing that it's one type of pay-for-performance model that's used in social financing. We think there are some issues with it. We think there are also ways to mitigate those problems

Finance committee  First, we were supportive of your private member's bill.

Finance committee  We are very concerned with clawbacks. That's basically the issue. If you could say it in the most simple way, it's that if people are working more and harder, they should be rewarded for that. They shouldn't be seeing their assistance clawed back. Thank you for your questions.

Finance committee  Thank you very much. Good morning, everybody. On behalf of the Canadian Association of Social Workers' board of directors and our federation partners in the provinces and territories, I thank you for inviting our profession's perspectives to these important consultations. We'

Finance committee  Absolutely, and thank you for the question. The Canada loan forgiveness program already exists for nurses and doctors and professions like that. What we hear all the time, which is so tragic when we're trying.... We know that, first of all, continuity of care is so important. Pe

Finance committee  That's a great question. We thought it was sort of interesting that this tax fairness conversation is taking place right now, with dialogue around that. We think the best way, as I said, to grow Canada from the inside is by looking at the lost revenue of poverty. Now, is that go

Finance committee  Not to get too philosophical, but also, I think that in the future we may need to have a really hard, scary conversations about the future of work and the definition of productivity in our country, and about the fact that we are on a finite planet and we can't grow forever. It is

Finance committee  That is sort of in keeping, actually, with a portion of the social care act we're proposing. I'm sure you know that right now money from the Canada social transfer just goes into general revenue. No one knows where it actually goes in the provinces, which we think is an issue. Wh