Status of Women committee  I think that's an astute observation. One of the things that people haven't come back to is that the decision around the long-form census is taking place in a broader context: a number of other surveys have been eliminated, and there have been significant cutbacks at Statistics C

Status of Women committee  Based on my understanding of the response rate of low-income Canadians to the census, there is an enormous amount of support—I think Doug and Leroy can probably speak to this—put into assisting different groups of Canadians to fill out the census at that time. We heard last we

Status of Women committee  To my knowledge, I don't have any information about a particular country that, having signed, opted out. Certainly different countries have proceeded to develop the indicators to track the status of women pursuant to the Beijing agreements. What was interesting, of course, was

Status of Women committee  When this issue first came up and when I looked at and read the new household survey, I was certainly struck by the fact that those particular questions on unpaid work had been excised from the household survey. It brought to mind the real fight there had been in the women's mo

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the opportunity to address the committee. Cutting to the chase, I want to come back and follow up on Peggy's comments in terms of recommendations, taking into account the fact that the committee is looking at the mandatory nature of the long-form census and questio

Human Resources committee  Very briefly, I'd also just like to add, though, that if we move into a climate where people no longer have access to the long form, in small communities in particular, these communities will go without. We may well, our large municipalities, try to attempt to generate their own

Human Resources committee  As a national non-profit, are we able to continue to do work by using these data to tell the story? I think there's a tremendous stress, certainly at the national level. There are fewer national non-profits. There are fewer social community-based research organizations that are d

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. The question about the quality and type of housing that Canadians have has been some of the most used information from the census. Certainly CMHC, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, has done extensive research over the last 40 years, describing the Canadian

Human Resources committee  Did you say less than one minute? Certainly. I'll cut to the chase, then, and go to my conclusion. I hopefully will bring up some of the research that CCSD has used extensively, relying on the information generated by the census, in our social research and economic work over the

Finance committee  Certainly we raised immigration settlement in the context of social infrastructure and the moneys that were available, the current level of funding. The federal government currently does support immigration settlement through a number of programs at CIC and the like. We flag it p

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  Yes, absolutely. One of the difficulties right now certainly is with the EI program and the number of Canadians who are unemployed who don't have access to the program as a result of their particular work histories. I know there are a number of recommendations on the table aro

Finance committee  The most pressing need is always a difficult question. The group the studies are illustrating right now as having the most acute and highest levels of poverty are working-age singles. I say that without taking away from what Ann is recommending around the further investment in th

Finance committee  Thanks very much. Just by way of picking up on what Peggy's been talking about in regard to our concern as a council going forward, certainly a year ago we were talking about what the stimulus package should look like as we slipped into recession. Going into recession, we were a

Human Resources committee  It would depend on what you're particularly interested in. I can follow up with you later, if you are looking at school dropouts or training programs for low-income workers or those sorts of things. It's an interesting feature of the United States that some of the best thinking i