From: Tingting Zhang To: Canadian Healthcare Observers Date: July 2, 2024 Re: Five Ways to Address our Family Physician Shortage Canadians are in a primary-care paradox. About 14 percent of Canadians aged 12 and older – approximately 4.6 million people – did not have a regular health-care provider in 2022, according to Statistics Canada. Even more alarming, about 6.6 million Canadians […]
From: Mary Catharine Lennon To: Competition law observers Date: June 25, 2024 Re: Signaling Quality in Labour Market Training A highly skilled workforce is critical for driving innovation, enhancing productivity, and ensuring the overall success of the Canadian economy. Governments support this through investments in colleges and universities, skilled immigration programs, and support for training programs. Meanwhile, employability is […]
From: Henry Lotin To: Canada’s Immigration Watchers Date: June 3, 2024 Re: Ottawa has No Process to Determine Skills for Half all Migrants Federal officials do not collect complete skills data for about half of our permanent resident and temporary visa arrivals. Without accurate information on new arrivals’ skills, we cannot effectively gauge whether they are matched with employment […]
Canada’s human capital challenges are receiving increasing attention from policymakers, businesses and the general public. Education, skills development, immigration, advancing technology, income support and the functioning of the labour market are shaping economic growth and the prosperity of Canadians. Further, whatever success Canada has enjoyed in terms of generating opportunities overall, our economy would benefit from […]
To: Immigration policymakers From: Tingting Zhang Date: April 9, 2024 Re: Watch out how many STEM workers we are admitting The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce plays a crucial role in Canada’s economy, vital for innovation, technological development, automation, infrastructure, and a green economy. And rising demand means Canada has experienced a STEM skill shortage. […]
De: Luc Godbout et Luce Samoisette À: Chrystia Freeland, ministre des Finances et Marie-Claude Bibeau, ministre du Revenu national Date: 19 mars 2024 Sujet: Maximiser le bon d’études canadien en l’offrant à tous les enfants de familles à revenu modeste Il y a 20 ans, le budget fédéral annonçait une nouveauté afin de favoriser l’accès […]
From: Luc Godbout and Luce Samoisette To: Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Finance and Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of National Revenue Date: March 19, 2024 Subject: On Its Anniversary, Has the Goal of the Canada Learning Bond Been Achieved? Twenty years ago, the federal government launched an initiative to promote post-secondary access for children from low-income families with a Canada Learning Bond […]
A significant amount of research investigates gender wage gaps, and there are several hypotheses to explain their persistence, including glass ceilings or sticky floors. A glass ceiling exists when the pay gap is significantly larger at the top of the earnings distribution, while a sticky floor is when the wage gap is larger at the […]
From: Tammy Schirle To: Canadians and policymakers concerned about gender equity Date: March 8, 2024 Re: Are Jobs Becoming a Little Less ‘Greedy’? Claudia Goldin, the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, has suggested a large part of the remaining gender gaps we see in the labour market are really driven by […]
From: Parisa Mahboubi and Mikal Skuterud To: The Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada Date: January 11, 2024 Re: A Multi-Pronged Strategy for Managing Canada’s Surging Non-Permanent Resident Population Recent years have seen an unprecedented increase in Canada’s non-permanent resident (NPR) population far surpassing increases in annual admissions of new permanent residents. This unbalanced growth […]
From: Parisa Mahboubi and Tingting Zhang To: Canadian Labour Force Observers Date: December 1, 2023 Re: Navigating Labour Shortages: A Strategic Path for Canada’s SMEs Your local entrepreneur, whether a coffee shop owner or a medium-sized manufacturer, has a problem. They are likely to face labour shortages that stymie their growth plans and reduce their significant contribution to […]
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEsConsistent with Statistics Canada’s definition, we consider businesses with one-to-99 paid employees as small and 100-499 paid employees as medium-sized.) play a vital role in job creation and economic growth. Their contribution to Canada’s gross domestic product was, on average, 53 percent a year between 2014 and 2018. Canadian small […]
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From: Tingting Zhang To: Canadian Healthcare Observers Date: July 2, 2024 Re: Five Ways to Address our Family Physician Shortage Canadians are in a primary-care paradox. About 14 percent of Canadians aged 12 and older – approximately 4.6 million people – did not have a regular health-care provider in 2022, according to Statistics Canada. Even more alarming, about 6.6 million Canadians […] 
From: Mary Catharine Lennon To: Competition law observers Date: June 25, 2024 Re: Signaling Quality in Labour Market Training A highly skilled workforce is critical for driving innovation, enhancing productivity, and ensuring the overall success of the Canadian economy. Governments support this through investments in colleges and universities, skilled immigration programs, and support for training programs. Meanwhile, employability is […] 
From: Henry Lotin To: Canada’s Immigration Watchers Date: June 3, 2024 Re: Ottawa has No Process to Determine Skills for Half all Migrants Federal officials do not collect complete skills data for about half of our permanent resident and temporary visa arrivals. Without accurate information on new arrivals’ skills, we cannot effectively gauge whether they are matched with employment […] 
Canada’s human capital challenges are receiving increasing attention from policymakers, businesses and the general public. Education, skills development, immigration, advancing technology, income support and the functioning of the labour market are shaping economic growth and the prosperity of Canadians. Further, whatever success Canada has enjoyed in terms of generating opportunities overall, our economy would benefit from […] 
To: Immigration policymakers From: Tingting Zhang Date: April 9, 2024 Re: Watch out how many STEM workers we are admitting The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce plays a crucial role in Canada’s economy, vital for innovation, technological development, automation, infrastructure, and a green economy. And rising demand means Canada has experienced a STEM skill shortage. […] 
De: Luc Godbout et Luce Samoisette À: Chrystia Freeland, ministre des Finances et Marie-Claude Bibeau, ministre du Revenu national Date: 19 mars 2024 Sujet: Maximiser le bon d’études canadien en l’offrant à tous les enfants de familles à revenu modeste Il y a 20 ans, le budget fédéral annonçait une nouveauté afin de favoriser l’accès […] 
A significant amount of research investigates gender wage gaps, and there are several hypotheses to explain their persistence, including glass ceilings or sticky floors. A glass ceiling exists when the pay gap is significantly larger at the top of the earnings distribution, while a sticky floor is when the wage gap is larger at the […] 
From: Tammy Schirle To: Canadians and policymakers concerned about gender equity Date: March 8, 2024 Re: Are Jobs Becoming a Little Less ‘Greedy’? Claudia Goldin, the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, has suggested a large part of the remaining gender gaps we see in the labour market are really driven by […] 
From: Parisa Mahboubi and Mikal Skuterud To: The Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada Date: January 11, 2024 Re: A Multi-Pronged Strategy for Managing Canada’s Surging Non-Permanent Resident Population Recent years have seen an unprecedented increase in Canada’s non-permanent resident (NPR) population far surpassing increases in annual admissions of new permanent residents. This unbalanced growth […] 
From: Parisa Mahboubi and Tingting Zhang To: Canadian Labour Force Observers Date: December 1, 2023 Re: Navigating Labour Shortages: A Strategic Path for Canada’s SMEs Your local entrepreneur, whether a coffee shop owner or a medium-sized manufacturer, has a problem. They are likely to face labour shortages that stymie their growth plans and reduce their significant contribution to […] 
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEsConsistent with Statistics Canada’s definition, we consider businesses with one-to-99 paid employees as small and 100-499 paid employees as medium-sized.) play a vital role in job creation and economic growth. Their contribution to Canada’s gross domestic product was, on average, 53 percent a year between 2014 and 2018. Canadian small […]