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  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

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

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  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  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