Finance committee  It's relevant for you, but—

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  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  Yes, or do you have—

Finance committee  Okay, why don't you?

Finance committee  Okay, in what way?

Finance committee  Thank you very much. I'll go to Ms. Doucet because of your expertise in gender.

Finance committee  If I understand you correctly—and I appreciate that you put so much on the table—you're saying that in terms of looking forward and creating the conditions for greater economic growth, pay equity is central to the conversation.

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  I don't mean to interrupt, but I would like to hear from Mr. Cross.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Minister, for being here. Thank you for the work you're doing. In the riding of London North Centre, which I represent in the House of Commons, 19,000 children have benefited from the CCB. That is tremendously important in a community that has s

Finance committee  When Preston Manning agrees with the rationale of our policy, I think it speaks volumes about our direction, quite frankly. There's a minute left in my questioning here, so I want to ask you about pay equity. We've been talking about doing something for decades. This is the most

Finance committee  I disagree.