It’s common knowledge Canada’s federal budget, after being thanks to tanking oil prices, tends to be less detailed financial blueprint than political document.
Based on , here are some modest recommendations from experts and families we spoke with for Finance Minister Joe Oliver:
- Affordable, accessible child care would get more people into the workforce, raising tax revenues and lowering the amount spent on social services,. Right now, a multitude of parents told us, there simply aren’t enough spaces, there’s a huge cost barrier and many unregulated early childhood educators are underpaid. A found proposed changes to federal childcare funding this year would mean most of that cash would benefit families who don’t need it because their childcare expenditures are close to $0.
- The federal ’s a start, but it isn’t enough: Instead of , we’d be better off working with the provinces to so they have the skills they need to work in a shifting market, .
- If done right, , studies from UBC, Carleton University and elsewhere ,. They say this would ensure Canadians don’t need to choose between paying the rent and staying healthy, or between staying on welfare and retaining benefits or getting a job and losing access to the meds they need.
- As the multiple times, this would benefit a wealthy minority of Canadians and cost Ottawa $2.2-billion. He keep more people out of the workforce even as the percentage of Canadians in their working prime is at its lowest since 2002 and (Japan .)
- , as the chart below demonstrates. That means many Canadian workers pay into a program from which they never benefit. the program could be changed to benefits Canadians in precarious work who may be unemployed multiple times or for extended periods.
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