Thursday evening at the Canadian War Museum, in a debate presented by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and moderated by historian Jack Granatstein, CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan and economist William Watson debated the motion, “Wealth has too much power in Canada.”
Read Armine's argument online here: Is wealth too powerful in Canada? YES.
On April 30, 2013, CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan was among the witnesses who testified to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance as part of the committee’s ongoing study of income inequality. This publication is the transcript of her presentation to the committee. In it, she gives us cause to consider what inaction on income inequality could mean, and shares some recommendations on how the federal government can play an important role in offsetting growing income inequality and the problems it unleashes.
Video of the full hearing, including this presentation, is available online via the Canadian Parliamentary Affairs Channel (CPAC).
"Inequality is accelerating – and with it, the fragility of our economy." The latest column by Frances Russell, Tax cuts a race to the bottom, connects the dots between worsening income inequality in Canada, the insatiable political drive for more tax cuts, and the diminishing role of government in mitigating the gap between the rich and the rest of us.
Read the full article, here.
CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan was among the witnesses who testified to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance as part of the committee’s ongoing study of income inequality. Armine discusses income inequality—giving us cause to consider what inaction could mean—and shares some recommendations on how the federal government can play an important role in offsetting growing income inequality and the problems it unleashes.
You can read the full transcript of Armine's presentation, here: Study of Income Inequality in Canada—What Can Be Done. You can also watch video of the hearing, here.
The coming weeks will see women and men graduating in nearly equal numbers from schools across Canada. By the time those women and men reach their 30s, they will see the gap between their incomes and their share of paid work widen. This pattern will continue throughout their working lives. The women of the class of 2013 can look forward to lower rates of promotion at work, less stable work, and diminished retirement security. They will occupy less than a quarter of the senior leadership positions in the public and political sectors.
A new study, by CCPA research associate Kate McInturff, finds that Canada's progress in closing the gap between women and men in the areas of political and economic empowerment has slowed nearly to a standstill. Unless we do something differently, we won't be able to promise equality to the class of 2013 or any other graduating class for the next 228 years.
Read more about Canada's gender gap—and how we can close it—in the full report: Closing Canada’s Gender Gap: Year 2240 Here We Come!
Working women in Ontario are doing all they can to get by: they're working hard, they're driving enrolments in bachelor and master's degree programs at our universitites. But when it comes to pay, the gap between men and women remains. Women in Ontario earn 28% less than men. And we know that racialized women, Aboriginal women and women with disabilities disproportionately find themselves on the lower end of the income scale in Ontario - reflecting systemic discrimination in the labour market. None of this is inevitable.
Learn more about the pay gap between men and women in Ontario with this new CCPA-Ontario report by legal expert Mary Cornish and find out how we can close the gap. For starters, take a look at this simple, shareable flow chart:
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