Finance committee  Thank you very much. It's nice to be here with all of you. The Canadian Union of Public Employees is Canada's largest union, with over 700,000 members. Our members work in a broad cross-section of the economy such as health care, education, municipalities, libraries, universitie

Finance committee  Pharmacare is a great example, because many people lost their coverage when they lost their jobs. They couldn't afford their medicine because they didn't have money and they didn't have coverage. Universal pharmacare would make sure they were always covered, whether or not they h

Finance committee  This is a question I've been thinking a lot about. I know the federal government can continue to borrow money to fund the stimulus we need right now, but eventually we'll need to increase tax fairness. The federal government will need to increase revenue. You have public sector w

Finance committee  Thank you very much. Thanks for inviting the Canadian Union of Public Employees to present to the committee. We're Canada’s largest union, with over 700,000 members. Our members work in a broad cross-section of the economy, such as health care, education, municipalities, librari

Finance committee  I think this ties back to what Armine was talking about earlier. Child care is going to improve productivity. If people have affordable, quality child care in place and their kids are well cared for, that improves productivity. If we have affordable public transit and active tran

Finance committee  EKOS has done polling. Three-quarters of Canadians support a fundamental transformation of the economy because it wasn't working for them. They knew that. We suddenly have this moment where we see that a government can actually make a difference in people's lives. People have som

Finance committee  Thank you very much. That's a great question. I appreciate that. I'm really grateful to be presenting with Armine, because I agree completely. The first thing we have to focus on is health. If we're not healthy, and if we can't be healthy at work, we know that we spread this t

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Chair. Thank you to the committee for having me present today. The Canadian Union of Public Employees is Canada's largest union, with over 700,000 members. CUPE members work across a broad cross-section of the economy, in such areas as health care and educat

International Trade committee  What you could have done with CUSMA is have an internal economic analysis of what you're negotiating priorities were. This could help to form your negotiating priorities. What do we want to get out this? Then, once you have your initial drafts, you would run the numbers again. At

International Trade committee  To do any economic assessment, no; but to have the final economic assessment, yes.

International Trade committee  Absolutely. In the U.S., it was released over a year ago, I think. Having that information available to the public and allowing people to make that.... I understand that is what happened under the original NAFTA. Information was made public and people understood and had the data

International Trade committee  I was the senior economist there as well.

International Trade committee  I graduated in 2007.

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  Yes.