Human Resources committee  —Children and Social Development and departmental officials to appear to provide an update on the implementation of the seven recommendations found in the Committee’s 14th report entitled: “Supporting Families After the Loss of a Child”; that this meeting be two hours long; that

Human Resources committee  —and that this meeting be televised.

Human Resources committee  How do you explain the $60 million discrepancy between the budget estimates and the cost estimates of the PBO for the training credit?

Human Resources committee  Thank you.

Human Resources committee  This is relating to the Canada training benefit. I'm wondering if there is a concern that we'll be funding people to take training courses that are currently offered by universities for free and are available online on platforms like Coursera and edX.

Human Resources committee  You based Canada's training benefit on Singapore's SkillsFuture program. I'm wondering what guarantees you have that you'll be able to prevent the type of scams that we saw in Singapore, where $80 million was funnelled into shell companies on bogus claims for training.

Human Resources committee  This is for Minister Qualtrough. According to a CTV article on Monday, your government is planning on cutting a program that employs about 34 people with developmental disabilities, and they're right here on Parliament Hill and they're planning on protesting this. So, what give

Human Resources committee  Are you going to address them on Parliament Hill when they protest?

Human Resources committee  Okay, that's a good start anyway. Ms. Bégin, it was interesting to me, coming from Alberta, to see that the real hourly wage growth in Canada was influenced very much by the oil sector. When it was going strong, everyone was benefiting. Now that we don't have any pipelines and

Human Resources committee  On that topic, as my colleague was mentioning, oftentimes there are choices that people make. As my colleague was saying, women sometimes want that flexibility to stay home with their children, etc. Certainly, I would think that in the federal government and many provincial gover

Human Resources committee  You say that the gap is narrowing. Can you suggest any reason that's happening? I take it that men and women are getting closer to equality across the board.

Human Resources committee  You do have some details on that.

Human Resources committee  Thanks very much for being here. Those were lots of great stats, for sure, and it's quite a complicated issue, all in all. I guess we get back again to defining precarious employment. Mr. Michaud, you talked about the need to find a definition. I think this committee has been

Human Resources committee  Would you be able to offer a bit of what their definition comprised?

Human Resources committee  I would like to ask Ms. Nord the same thing. What would you say? Do you think Canadians would accept that if we were to take the extreme view and say we're going to give everybody a basic income? To me that's sound very communistic.