Finance committee  Certainly.

Finance committee  Yes. There's a need for additional supports, but I would say that income and affordable housing access will do a lot to reduce the needs.

Finance committee  That's a fairly difficult question, Julie. The housing benefit could really use some rework and redesign. In addition to building affordable housing, portable housing benefits can be very useful to stack on affordability as people need it, because presumably and hopefully many p

Finance committee  I think others have spoken about the.... Is there something wrong with other savings vehicles that are making people turn to property as an investment? People seem to be leaving savings in the stock market behind, or they're doing both. I think there's a rush towards investing in

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon. Thank you for inviting West Neighbourhood House here today. I have a brief that I sent in on Friday with nine recommendations. It's being translated for you. I don't know if you have it yet. West Neighbourhood House is a multiservice, not

Finance committee  The partial answer is that I think it's one of the ways, but I'm really impressed with the City of Toronto's taking over hotels. This has afforded a bunch of homeless people the chance to have their own room, their own bathroom and to self-isolate with a TV. It's way safer and it

Finance committee  John Stapleton has written a paper about this. It's on the Open Policy Ontario website. He has a checklist of all the questions that need to be filled in for income tax, and the government actually has the information for almost every single item there already. That's usually thr

Finance committee  I would suggest that COVID has raised some concerns that would show that the national housing strategy needs to now be turned into a system, an affordable housing system, and there are different components of it. I think it's a natural progression from the very good start of the

Finance committee  Bonjour and thank you for inviting me to your panel today. In particular, I thank our Davenport MP, Julie Dzerowicz. I want to share some other thanks and four suggestions for a more pandemic-proof infrastructure for low-income Canadians. One recommendation concerns income tax