Human Resources committee  In central rural Canada, one of the most noteworthy differences is that it's a little circular in the sense that there isn't any public transit, so typically poverty is exacerbated by the fact that many people, in order to get to their jobs or social events, have to provide their

Human Resources committee  Yes, I would say it was utilized basically 100% by people who had kids, often because we would ask the question because it was there. One thing I noticed was that there was a very high awareness of those tax credits being there, which is sometimes unusual, especially nowadays bec

Human Resources committee  I think it's going to be hard to know because I believe people saw those tax credits as a partial funding of these activities. I think for those people who can afford to do these things, they're going to do what they would always do. I have [Technical difficulty—Editor] there wou

Human Resources committee  Is that a question for me?

Human Resources committee  As I mentioned before, I think what we'll see with a carbon tax—what we do see—is that it's a very layered thing, much like the provincial sales tax in B.C. that we deal with. When you have taxation or any kind of levy that layers into various levels of the supply chain, I think

Human Resources committee  I'd support some of that. Speaking from a northern perspective, I think there's an economic gain. This was mentioned by others and I brought it up briefly in my initial comments. I'd support that as long as we can see that there is an economic reason for those subsidies and that

Human Resources committee  I think the issue with any carbon tax is that there would be so many layers of costs built into the lifestyle, and certainly there would be an impact to low-income people. Just from the 30,000-foot view, my comment would be that I'm not a fan of carbon tax in general, and certa

Human Resources committee  I believe green infrastructure is important, but I would support other development ideas besides a carbon tax, which would layer over and over into the cost of anything people do.

Human Resources committee  I agree that's part of the solution. My comment was more that it has been at least moderately successful in a town like this, providing housing that's adequate and affordable. I'd say guardedly, yes, there's some of that, but I think there are much larger, overarching solutions o

Human Resources committee  My opinion on subsidies is that.... To refer to what some of the previous guests have said, it's a problem if we're facing such ridiculously high costs because of zoning, because of development charges, and because of other things that are levied by municipalities, and we subsidi

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. As a bit of background, as you mentioned. I live in northeastern B.C. and have grown up here. I'm a partner in a national accounting firm. As such, I work with a number of our property development clients. I'm speaking today specifically on the subject of