Human Resources committee  We agree. The infrastructure projects are the greatest candidates for effective community benefits and social procurement initiatives.

Human Resources committee  I'd like to talk to you about the risk-driven community safety program that the Province of Ontario is supporting. The model came from the city of Glasgow. There have also been experiments in Manitoba. The City of Toronto has really become engaged with this model, which encourage

Human Resources committee  We know that people with mental health issues are overrepresented among low-income Canadians. We can give you the statistics. We can also give you the stories. The 2,000 community members who helped design the poverty reduction strategy in Toronto have shared their narratives a

Human Resources committee  I'd like to share the experience of the City of Toronto in implementing a social procurement policy. The federal government, like the City of Toronto, is a huge purchaser of goods and services, and we can use that power for social benefits. What we have done—

Human Resources committee  We have developed a social procurement policy, which we are also encouraging other anchor institutions in Toronto to adopt, such as universities, colleges, the TTC, and Metrolinx. Together we have a collective buy of about $30 billion a year. If we reorganize the way we select b

Human Resources committee  As you know, the Board of Health and the City of Toronto have endorsed a harm reduction approach across many domains and submitted an application, I think the second in Canada, to establish safe injection sites in Toronto. We've identified, through research, the cost-effectivenes

Human Resources committee  The municipality and the local health integration network that serves residents in Toronto are piloting opportunities to link, as Vicky was saying, new rent supplements with social supports, but having further direction from the federal government about how to overcome those silo

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I think what you're identifying is the need for an expanded and more integrated circle of care so that we're not recreating these narrow sector strategies for funding programs. We've seen in Toronto that the At Home/Chez Soi study provides a good example of what's ef

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I will add to Ricardo's observations about the job quality tool that when we look at the literature internationally, we recognize that the dimensions of a job that make for well-being for the employee include wages and the benefits associated with the job. With the i