Employment and labour
Governments across Canada are implementing comprehensive plans with targets and timelines aimed at reducing poverty and social exclusion. The Province of Manitoba has taken important steps to address poverty and social exclusion in recent years, however, much more remains to be done. It has to be acknowledged that progress has been made in each of the relevant policy areas. But, unlike a growing number of provinces, Manitoba has not implemented a comprehensive plan that shows Manitobans how far it has come and where it plans to go in its efforts to reduce poverty and social exclusion.
It is now abundantly clear that Canada and the world is facing its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. However, a sense of premature Hoover-type optimism seems to have settled in to Ottawa's thinking, breeding a dangerous complacency that the government has done all that is required to combat the recession. The federal government appears to be hiding behind the proposition that with strong banks and strong fundamentals, the Canadian economy will automatically recover as US demand picks up.
OTTAWA – This recession is hitting Canada harder and faster than any previous downturn and Canadians are more exposed to economic ruin than they’ve been since the 1930s, says a report released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
OTTAWA – La récession en cours frappe le Canada plus durement et plus rapidement que tout ralentissement antérieur et les Canadiens sont plus exposés à la ruine financière qu’ils l’ont été depuis les années 30, affirme-t-on dans un rapport publié par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA).
Inside this pre-election special edition:
BC’s Growing Gap
Vanilla, No Sprinkles: A Review of BC Budget 2009
A Closer Look at Single Transferable Vote
An STV Primer
The Case for STV
The Case Against STV
Reflections on the Citizens’ Assembly
STV is Worth Trying
The Ghost of Elections Past: STV in the 1952 and 1953 BC Elections
TORONTO – La majorité des ménages du Canada bénéficient d’une meilleure qualité de vie parce que les services publics que paie l’argent de leurs impôts constituent une très bonne affaire, selon une nouvelle étude du Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA).
Canada’s Quiet Bargain: The Benefits of Public Spending répond à des appels incessants en faveur de réductions d’impôts et conclut que les services publics apportent une contribution importante au niveau de vie de la majorité des Canadiens – et qu’ils représentent au moins 50 % de leur revenu.
TORONTO – The majority of Canadian households enjoy a higher quality of life because the public services their taxes fund come at a solid bargain, according to a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
Canada’s Quiet Bargain: The Benefits of Public Spending responds to incessant calls for tax cuts and concludes public services make a significant contribution to the majority of Canadians’ standard of living – worth at least 50% of their income.