Finance committee  Yes, I will be glad to. We submitted a brief on that issue to the committee. We specifically address the income replacement rates in Canada compared to the other countries of the OECD. Canada is not the worst, but is not the best. We used an analysis from the D'Amours report. Th

Finance committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for the question, Mr. Ste-Marie. When a poverty line is established, one expects the government's benefits for the less fortunate to come up to that line at a minimum. That is basically what we are saying. Although we would like everyone to get the 10%

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Ms. Tassé-Goodman. The data from the Conference Board of Canada, which we constantly use, shows that federal health transfers will fall below 20% of health care funding by 2026 given the way they have evolved in the past three years. There has been a similar debate in

Status of Women committee  I don't think that it should come with any conditions. When the federal government wants to direct the delivery of certain services, it allocates specific amounts to those services. In the 2018 budget, I believe that it did so for home care. This method sends a clear message to t

Status of Women committee  As I was saying, nurses and orderlies are primarily women. These women are responsible for many patients each day. Clearly, an increase in health transfers would make it possible for the government to provide more resources to help these women and give them a break. These are th

Status of Women committee  From a broader perspective, we address the Canada Health Transfer issue in our brief. I believe that more resources must be allocated to the provinces so that they can provide quality services to citizens. The health transfers used to increase each year by 6%. The federal govern