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Harper’s new omnibus budget bill a stealth blow to civil servants
The Conservatives want the federal government to have the “exclusive right” to decide who is “essential” and cannot strike. Currently some 40,000 of the Public Service Alliance of Canada’s 187,000 members are essential. The change would undermine bargaining rights, potentially double the number of essential workers and sap their ability to use job action to press demands. By rights, such a sweeping nonbudget change should be brought before Parliament as a separate bill.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Clement mum on which public servants will be deemed essential
The minister said he can’t offer details on what kind of jobs would be declared essential or the expected percentages for each department… The legislative changes are contained in Bill C-4, which introduces provisions from the March budget and includes a section that affects Canada’s labour relations with federal public servants… The Canadian Labour Congress… call[ed] the bill “ an attack on the constitutional right to collective bargaining” and accused the government of trying to hide the changes in a budget bill.
Tags: economy, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Kathleen Wynne’s promise of open government will be a tough sell
The panel will report back next spring on ways to promote “open dialogue” (getting more input from the public), on “open data” (making government statistics available) and on “open information” (increasing government transparency). But the panel can do only so much… Plugging that trust gap won’t be easy… If the Wynne government is sincere about doing things differently, it will welcome exponentially more scrutiny and accountability than its predecessor.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, standard of living
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The funding formula for health care is broken. Alberta’s windfall proves it
In the federal budget of 2007, the Harper government announced that the CHT would be allocated on a strict equal per capita basis beginning in 2014. What this means is that each province will receive a CHT amount according to the size of its population, regardless of the income, demographic, geographic or other conditions of the province. This is significantly different from the current formula which allocates CHT based on both the population share and the income level of the provinces.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living
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Inflation biggest source of recent public service pay hikes: Report
Virtually all growth in federal public service pay over the last 11 years has merely kept up with inflation, and additional hires comprised about half of the extra $7.8 billion in pay for public servants between 2001-02 and 2011-12, the report shows… only four per cent could be counted as real income gains over the 11-year period covered by the study… “Cumulatively, changes in classification and real wage growth contributed little to overall labour cost growth”
Tags: budget, economy, ideology
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B.C. First Nations take over their own health care services
The federal government, which is responsible for health services on reserves, is handing over the budget, 134 staff, and the office keys in B.C. to a new entity called the First Nations Health Authority… The new authority, with just under 300 staff, takes over the federal government’s $377.8-million annual budget that funds nurses, health care-focused social workers, dentists and, eventually, doctors serving roughly 150,000 aboriginals across the province… If successful, the handover would provide a template — and a pool of experts — for First Nations leaders elsewhere in Canada
Tags: Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health
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$8-billion more for Ontario? Inequality gets provincial
With resource revenues creating massive gaps in provincial wealth, Prof. Courchene warns that the richer provinces could become tax havens with vastly superior public services… Ottawa’s move to cap growth in equalization payments and transfers for health and social spending will enable it to balance its budget but make it near-impossible for poorer provinces to do so without slashing current services or investments in future-oriented infrastructure and education.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Embattled Parliamentary Budget Office is worth saving
The office was so effective, in fact, that the government stopped cooperating with it… In a time of ballooning budget bills and increasing executive power, Parliament seems ever less informed about the government’s fiscal plans. It’s from within that cloud that the Tories have been allowed to claim fiscal prudence while running up unprecedented budget deficits… But Page’s institute, however useful, cannot serve as a replacement for the defanged government watchdog.
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Online voting: the ultimate hackers’ challenge
Online votes instantly become a negotiable commodity. What are a voter’s user ID and password worth? A beer? Ten or twenty bucks? At work, out-of-town on business, or on vacation on election day? Provide your information to your favourite party, and they’ll ensure you vote. For them, of course. What happens when cynical voters give their authentication and authorization information to everyone who asks?
Tags: crime prevention, participation, rights
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Hundreds of millions in foreign aid go unspent, new figures show
The Conservative government announced last year it was cutting $377 million, or about 7.5 per cent, of Canada’s $5 billion aid budget as part of its efforts to slay the deficit. But analysts say letting hundreds of millions of aid dollars lapse is indicative of incompetence on Fantino’s part — or an intentional effort to reduce aid spending in the hopes no one would notice.
Tags: budget, globalization, ideology, philanthropy
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