12-Month Lobbying Summary - Consultant

Subject Matters

• Agriculture
• Consumer Issues
• Employment and Training
• Health
• Housing
• Labour
• Municipalities
• Pensions
• Taxation and Finance

Subject Matter Details

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution

• Advocate for policies to address the financialization of housing
• Call for implementation of Canada Disability Benefit as Federal Income Supplement
• Securing formal recognition that food is a human right in domestic policy

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program

• Reforms to Employment Insurance (EI) to enable low-wage, temporary, casual, and/or contract workers to have access to EI benefits

Policies or Program

• Advocating for the realization of the right to housing, including increasing the supply of, and access to, affordable housing for low-income Canadians.
• Calls for a National School Lunch Program
• Conversion of non-refundable credits that benefit low-income Canadians to refundable tax credits
• Creation of financial benefits (e.g. refundable tax credits) for single adults with low incomes
• Enhancing the frequency of national data collection on food insecurity and establishment of targets for reducing food insecurity as part of the Poverty Reduction Strategy
• Ensuring all low-income Canadians have access to the Canada Child Benefit and that rates are indexed to inflation
• Ensuring all low-income seniors have access to Old Age Security and Guaranteed Income Supplement and that these benefits are increased to reflect the cost of living
• Establishment of national Pharmacare and Dental Care programs
• Expansion of national child care and early learning program that is accessible to low-income families

Policies or Program, Regulation

• Ease filing of taxes for people living in poverty