Status of Women committee  I'd also like to note that in order to qualify for social assistance, you usually have to get rid of almost all of your assets. If you have a home, you may have to remortgage it and use that money to live on until the equity you have in your own home is below the level set by the

Status of Women committee  As for your first question, I would say that it is harder for women to qualify, but in addition, they also receive less in benefits. That is due to the fact that, even today, they still earn less and the system penalizes them because of the precarious, casual nature of the employ

Status of Women committee  To answer one of your questions, one study I found, which was produced for Human Resource Development Canada, shows that recent immigrants, that is, people who have been in Canada for under 10 years, have an EI accessibility rate that is 10 points lower compared to people who hav

Status of Women committee  We prepared a written submission, but since it has not yet been translated into English, we cannot distribute it. We will need 10 minutes to talk about the two organizations.

Status of Women committee  Hello. In our report, we presented a brief history of all the measures within the employee insurance system since 1940 that have discriminated against women, either directly or indirectly. I will spare you the details, but we would like to focus on the last measure, namely, fr