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Finance committee I'd like to hear from the two pay equity experts as well. It is one of the most complex problems in terms of trying to figure out why it occurs, but I agree with you that structural barriers are extremely important. There is a well-documented motherhood penalty that occurs for w
November 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Prof. Andrea Doucet
Finance committee Pay equity is absolutely essential. Your government has laid out really well why we need women in the labour market.
November 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Prof. Andrea Doucet
Finance committee That was in terms of the Statistics Canada data that's run through ESDC. I'm sure it's going to be changing. The last dataset that we analyzed was in 2013, and that's all there was at that time.
November 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Prof. Andrea Doucet
Finance committee It could have something to do with that. We are working with Statistics Canada to try to get better data to measure different groups' access to parental leave benefits but also more on fathers. There's very little data on fathers as well.
November 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Prof. Andrea Doucet
Finance committee No. Self-employed women are categorized differently, but they can opt-in or not. We argue that, as in Quebec, we should make the opt-in much easier. The opt-in is more complicated outside Quebec.
November 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Prof. Andrea Doucet
Finance committee Yes.
November 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Prof. Andrea Doucet
Finance committee It's low-income households earning under $30,000.
November 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Prof. Andrea Doucet
Finance committee They don't have access, and it's either because they aren't eligible—they don't have the insurable hours—or because of the employment standards legislation, which has minimums in some provinces. In some provinces you need to have worked a year with the same employer. Let's say yo
November 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Prof. Andrea Doucet
Finance committee In some provinces, yes.
November 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Prof. Andrea Doucet
Finance committee I do. It's at least 52 weeks in Alberta, Nova Scotia, and then the three territories. In Manitoba it's 31 weeks. Quebec has no minimum, and New Brunswick and British Columbia on the other side. Ontario has at least 13 weeks.
November 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Prof. Andrea Doucet
Finance committee You need to have worked 13 weeks before you can claim the benefits.
November 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Prof. Andrea Doucet
Finance committee So you might be eligible but you can't claim.
November 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Prof. Andrea Doucet
Finance committee That's certainly been the stated impetus for the banks leaving. It's about timeliness and effectiveness. There are four pieces of information. In conversations with OBSI, I have learned that it was blindsided by the Scotiabank move. The ongoing meetings regarding performance, wi
November 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Prof. Andrea Doucet
Finance committee With the move of National Bank and Scotiabank to ADRBO, we now have 70% of consumers under ADRBO jurisdiction.
November 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Prof. Andrea Doucet
Finance committee We did nine provinces, because that's all the data we had at that time.
November 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Prof. Andrea Doucet