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Disability Policy Highlights
This paper presents an overview of disability policy highlights from 2006 to the present… including the creation of the Registered Disability Savings Plan, Opportunities Fund, Enabling Accessibility Fund and post-secondary education grants. It also discusses the various federal-provincial/territorial labour market agreements that help enhance the employability of Canadians with disabilities.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax
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A new way to measure progress
… the Social Progress Index… is designed to offer economists, governments and businesses another way to measure national performance… economists have begun to question whether GDP is sufficient to measure national success… By measuring real things that matter to people’s lives, the Social Progress Index tries to get the metrics right so that we, as a society, can strive for the right things.
Tags: economy, globalization, Health, ideology, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living
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Still hopeful after all these years [tax evasion]
If everyone paid their fair share of taxes and worked together with a major plan, just think that we could become the most perfect country in the world… Millions of dollars is such a waste, lying offshore when it could be helping Canadians realize that there is a better living for us all. Why don’t we try it.
Tags: budget, economy, standard of living, tax
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Conservatives’ democratic reforms deserve democratic due process
If the name of the Fair Elections Act is to be read as anything other than eye-rollingly Orwellian, the government must stop trying to railroad this bill through Parliament. It should give MPs the time to fully study and debate the diverse legislation therein, address the many alarming questions swirling around it, and take the summer to repair it.
Tags: ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Flaherty has done more than anyone to make life more affordable for Canada’s most vulnerable citizens
… he has been the champion for measures like the Disability Tax Credit and the Registered Disability Savings Plan in previous budgets. This time around, he has found money for vocational training for people with autism and labour market agreements to help people with disabilities get the skills they need… he’s… done more than anyone to make life more affordable for some of the country’s most vulnerable citizens.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, mental Health, participation, pensions, poverty, standard of living, tax, youth
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Citizenship reforms a serious threat to rights of all Canadians
… what they really do is make citizens vulnerable to abuse of power by the government. They broadly expand the requirements for citizenship in ways that will make it inaccessible to many while dramatically reducing a person’s due process rights when the government seeks to take citizenship away… Under the proposed changes a person will be eligible for citizenship only if they satisfy the minister that they intend to reside in Canada after becoming a citizen.
Tags: globalization, ideology, immigration, rights, standard of living
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How to read Ottawa’s latest immigration changes
Our immigration policy used to be a citizenship policy — 85 per cent of newcomers opted for citizenship, the highest rate of such integration among immigrant-receiving nations. But the Conservatives turned immigration into a supply chain of cheap and pliant labour for business. Thus the exponential rise in temporary foreign workers and a record level of immigration, at about 250,000 a year, despite persistent high unemployment among Canadians.
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, rights
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Chris Alexander’s flawed overhaul of citizenship law
One particularly problematic proposal would revoke the citizenship of “terrorists”… It would allow Canada to revoke the citizenship of any dual citizen involved in an “armed conflict” in Canada… It would also open the door to stripping citizenship from any dual citizen convicted of terrorism, treason or spying abroad…. Loss of citizenship, except in cases of citizenship fraudulently obtained, should not be on the menu of possible punishments, even for the gravest crimes.
Tags: globalization, ideology, participation, rights
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How to put Canada back together again
… Four ways we can advance social cohesion in Canada. 1. Mandatory voting… 2. A proportional representation electoral system… 3. A guarantee of basic income… 4. Protections for the Precariat. The growing numbers of workers in precarious employment need full workplace protections and enforcement of employment standards… The Big Four recommendations address the main assaults on social cohesion: nonparticipation in democratic institutions and inequality in the workplace.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Charities doing government work
Taxpayers should understand that when they demand tax cuts, governments will offload their responsibilities elsewhere — beyond the public eye. Charities are being misused and abused. Poorly paid “charity” employees often provide the government services that our tax dollars pay for… In practice, charities are very poorly regulated in Canada.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, tax
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