Finance committee  To the Equal Pay Coalition, again, I'll read to you the quote from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute: The reasons for the pay gap between men and women are not particularly new. Women tend to be clustered in fields that traditionally pay less than the ones that men choose, and i

Finance committee  Thank you very much, and thank you all for being here today. I want to focus the first part on pay equity. What we see here with Bill C-86 is the advancement of something quite important, something that we've been talking about doing as a country for a number of decades. While t

Finance committee  Could you, Mr. James, go into that last point you made a bit more, on the market basket measure and how it differs from the other approaches and what it offers? When we talk about this policy being truly historic, for me at least, it's the market basket measure that holds that

Finance committee  What I like here is that I can look at, for example, poverty levels in the southwest of Ontario where I'm from—I represent London, Ontario; that's the region I also advocate for—and compare that with poverty levels in British Columbia or Alberta and so on and so forth. When I sa

Finance committee  I'm sure that, if they had, we would know. Thank you very much.

Finance committee  I have a point of order, Mr. Chair. Is this question relevant to the discussion of the BIA?

Finance committee  It's relevant for you, but—

Finance committee  Thank you very much. Thank you for being here. I have a question with respect to the whistle-blowing amendments that have been made and also the changes that have been made for the complaints handling bodies. What was the situation prior to these changes being brought into effe

Finance committee  Thank you very much. One last question on the requirement for banks to provide an electronic alert to help consumers manage fees. How would that work exactly in as basic and concise an answer as you can provide?

Finance committee  That's very positive. Thank you very much.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a question on the clarification of ambiguous language with respect to the CDIC Act. For example, what was the problem before and what's the remedy now?

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Thank you very much. Could you explain a little further the point about redundant tariff items? What made them redundant and how does the change improve things from an efficiency perspective?

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Giroux, for being here. I was very interested in the report that you recently released. You say that U.S. tax cuts will not have a material impact on Canada's investment climate. I wonder if you could expand on that point. Tell us how you