Publication Archive

Towards A Better Employment Insurance (EI) System for Workers in Today’s Job Market

Posted: Wednesday, 28 February 2007

This backgrounder and policy statement was prepared for the Parliamentary Committee studying Bill C-269, which would significantly improve access to EI benefits. The CLC encourages all parties to work co-operatively to produce a consensus set of changes to … Read More

The Security and Prosperity Partnership Undermining Canadian Social Programs and weakening Environmental Protection

Posted: Friday, 23 February 2007

In a few days, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day, Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay and Industry Minister Maxime Bernier, along with their counter-parts in the United States and Mexico, are meeting with CEOs of the most powerful corporations in North… Read More

The Economics of the Minimum Wage

Posted: Monday, 5 February 2007

The minimum wage debate is heating up once again, with the NDP and the labour movement strongly pushing for a minimum wage of at least $10 per hour in Ontario, at the federal level (as recently recommended by the Arthurs Report) and indeed across the countr… Read More