Status of Women committee  Maybe I'll start with some opening comments about the Canadian Chamber's resolutions specifically about supporting not only immigrants through, for example, foreign credential recognition or through pathways to permanent residency, but also.... I'll give you an example from the

Status of Women committee  I'm just going to add very quickly that the Canadian Chamber partnered with StatsCan on what's called the “Canadian Survey on Business Conditions”. We've been tracking the data since the beginning of the pandemic, and data will come out soon for September. We compare exact data,

Status of Women committee  Could I add one minute to that, if that's okay?

Status of Women committee  I just want to add that, at the Canadian Chamber, we're tracking this. We've heard all the letters of the alphabet through this crisis, like V and W, but we're also tracking K-shaped economies, right? Those are sectors, but it's also those who own businesses. What we do know abo

Status of Women committee  No, thank you. Not at this time.

Human Resources committee  Yes, and I did hear that from the last panel. Colleagues from the CME from the last panel were referring to a number of their members, and I was delighted to hear it was over 50%. I had alluded to the fact that we're going back out in the field with Stats Canada, and the results

Human Resources committee  Thank you for that question, MP Chabot. As I said in my remarks, the Canadian chamber feels that the emergency programs that have been put in place, be it the wage subsidy, the student benefit—I don't want to use all these acronyms—or the emergency subsidy, the CERB program, wer

Human Resources committee  We are considering it. I think that we have to discuss the difference between the short term—this opening and recovery period—and in the longer term, as I alluded to in my comments. It would be part of a larger discussion and of EI reform writ large.

Human Resources committee  I think it is one strength of the Canadian chamber and our network that we have a footprint across the country in these smaller communities. I heard questions earlier about getting information out to the small businesses on Main Streets across the country. The chamber can really

Human Resources committee  I think that we're seeing a number of factors at play. The first would be timing. The program only started on May 1, about six weeks after the crisis, so a number of job actions had already been taken. There is the issue around eligibility. I'll give credit where credit is due:

Human Resources committee  That was just issued this week, as I referred to, so thank you for that question. We had done the Canadian survey on business conditions and we were able to slice and dice the data in any number of ways, including by sector. We also sliced it by who owns the business. The retail

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, vice-chairs and committee members. It's a pleasure to be here before you this evening. My name is Leah Nord, and I am the senior director of workforce strategies and inclusive growth at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, working in the areas of skills, the