Finance committee  I'd be pleased to do so.

Finance committee  I think that's really important. My short answer is that old-style stimulus won't cut it or won't cut it alone. I know we're talking right now about how stimulus isn't what we're looking for. This is an opportunity, I think, to pivot and look at Canada's social infrastructure, gi

Finance committee  This is clearly our long-term care. Don't even get me started. It is broken; it is fundamentally broken. What has happened in our care sector is a tragedy for the entire country, and it's a shame for the entire country that we've neglected it. Obviously the response and organiz

Finance committee  Absolutely, I acknowledge the previous comment that additional monies have been channelled and are flowing to the women-serving community and the women's movement in the past number of years. Those have been short-term project monies. In terms of building capacity, core funding

Finance committee  Yes, the model in Quebec stands out. Its family policy, back 20 years, has been very successful in mobilizing and encouraging women's participation in the labour market and there's great research demonstrating the drop in child poverty and the like. The key piece there was $7 a

Finance committee  I can speak briefly to that since I already alluded to it. I'll leave the floor for someone else. Obviously, child care is critical. We have a model in Canada that certainly isn't worthy of emulation. It's largely driven by private fees, the parent fees and the like. It's enormo

Finance committee  Thanks so much for that question. No, the whole issue of paid sick leave obviously has risen to the top of considerations. We're looking at different models now about how you would implement that. Certainly that's been an issue on our radar. My colleagues in British Columbia are

Finance committee  Child care is critical to any recovery. It's necessary. Simply put, women will not be able to go back to the labour force. The child care sector has been mobilizing in different provinces and putting together plans, not only provincially but federally. Certainly, the current ask

Finance committee  Thank you so much for the invitation. It's tremendous. I've never done a presentation like this to a parliamentary committee. I'm in new territory here, as certainly the country is on new, uncharted grounds. I'm from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. We're a research

Status of Women committee  I think you mean in addition to OAS and GIS.

Status of Women committee  The proportion of seniors who receive OAS and GIS is actually in the 90%, and in fact it's closing.

Status of Women committee  That's right. Absolutely. And very many fewer have access, as I mentioned, to private employment pensions and the like. Some have no assets and support at all included in that. I mean, that number has changed. A lot of that, as I said, reflects the increased engagement of women

Status of Women committee  You have pinpointed a very important facet that would strengthen the economic security of seniors: housing. I applaud the government on the national housing strategy and the investments and the monies that are available in terms of the expansion of units. I understand that the co

Status of Women committee  This isn't my area, but I am struck by how vulnerable seniors are. I say that as a daughter of two aging parents. I just lost my mother, and I'm just overwhelmed by the number of entreaties and so forth. I think that part of the challenge is that seniors are isolated. They can't

Status of Women committee  It is. People who are isolated are victimized.