Status of Women committee  What a great question. We've been wrestling with this. You know, in December we're going to have the 50th anniversary of the status of women commission's report. We've been talking about this issue for 50 years, along with child care. I don't have a quick answer for you. I think

Status of Women committee  That's an excellent question. Almost everything else pales in comparison to making child care an accessible, affordable, high-quality reality for every family across Canada. It's true that Quebec leads the country in its expansion of access to affordable child care, but even Que

Status of Women committee  I don't know the answer to that. In some provinces we have the right to education enshrined. In Ontario it is a human right for a child to be educated. I think we need a national strategy to safely reopen the schools and child care centres. We need to be really vigilant so that

Status of Women committee  Okay. Thank you. I will say, in closing, the pandemic has revealed that the caring economy—health care, elder care, child care—is a vital underpinning to the essential economy. You need a plan. If you had 25% or half of your roads and bridges at risk of collapse, this government

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Chair, and thank you to everybody who has been spending all day listening to witnesses. I know it's hot and I know it's the middle of the summer, and I know that we're all really struggling. I thank you very much for your time and the invitation to bear wit

Finance committee  As I put in my HUMA report, which you can have in hand, it's like leaving money on the table to not invest in child care. Whereas I'm thrilled that Dr. Mintz agrees with me on this, and whereas it's absolutely true that Quebec has shown that it pays for itself, Pierre Fortin's wo

Finance committee  Thank you for the opportunity. I actually am not in favour of a basic income. I don't think CERB should have been the template. A lot of people think CERB was the portal through which we got a cheque for $2,000, or some amount of money, cut to everybody. They saw it as a portal

Finance committee  I'm going to pass. I'm happy to answer Mr. Julian privately, because I don't think most people much care what's happening to child care, based on the conversation. My views are out there. You have seen them. Also, plenty of you can see them in the report I did to HUMA. I'm just

Finance committee  It is.

Finance committee  Sweetheart, we've been talking about it since 1970. We're coming up on the 50th anniversary of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women report. We've been talking about it for 50 years now, or at least women have been—not so much governments—but we keep trying.

Finance committee  Wow, there's a bunch of stuff there. I don't know what to do immediately about the lost generation. We're looking at numbers that we have never seen before. About half of Canadians aged 25 to 34 have lost more than half of their income. They have to get back into the workforce.

Finance committee  It has been sent already. It's in the clerk's hands.

Finance committee  If you think we're facing a wave of mortgage failures—and we are—the wave of debt that is going to be coming at us can't be ducked, nor can the wave of insolvency for businesses and households. That is going to happen, so the question is simple: Who holds the debt? As I said in

Finance committee  Thank you, Chair, and thank you for this hard-working committee. I don't now how you guys do it. That's a lot of witnesses you are hearing from. I'm going to do my best to be quick. Yesterday, the Bank of Canada told us that the worst could soon be over for the economy. That's g

Human Resources committee  It's an excellent question and I thank you for it, but I do believe it would help professional women far more than low-income women. What we have seen is that most of the people who lost their jobs, that were deemed not essential, are low-paid workers. We have to get them back in