La prochaine vague : Le marché du travail canadien face à l’automatisation
Les groupes démographiques clés occupent des emplois plus vulnérables à l’automatisation Les principaux groupes démographiques sont plus vulnérables que la moyenne à la perte d’emplois par l’automatisation. L’auteure Rosalie Wyonch évalue l’impact probable de l’automatisation technologique sur le marché du travail canadien et compare ces résultats aux prévisions antérieures. Elle trouve une proportion d’emplois à […] The Next Wave: Automation and Canada’s Labour Market
Key Demographic Groups in Jobs more Vulnerable to Automation Key demographic groups are more vulnerable to job loss through automation than average. Author Rosalie Wyonch assesses the likely impact of technological automation on Canada’s labour market and compares these results to past predictions. She finds a lower proportion of employment at high risk of automation […] David Gray – What Does The Pandemic Teach Us About Ei?
From: David Gray To: The Honourable Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion Date: November 23, 2020 Re: What Does the Pandemic Teach us about EI? The COVID-19 pandemic brought labour market conditions to Depression-era levels during the months of April and May, and as of October, the unemployment rate of 8.9 […] Climbing Out of COVID
New C.D. Howe Institute Book Chronicles COVID-19 Policy Insights A new book from the C.D. Howe Institute provides an overview of the Institute’s critical policy recommendations made in response to the developing COVID-19 pandemic. “Climbing Out of COVID” compiles communiqués from the Institute’s Crisis Working Groups, as well as Intelligence Memos and op-eds, published up […] Boessenkool, Zon – Are We Doing Enough To Help Parents Weather The Covid Storm?
From: Ken Boessenkool and Noah Zon To: Federal and Provincial Ministers of Finance and Labour Date: November 4, 2020 Re: Are We Doing Enough to Help Parents Weather the COVID Storm? The current crisis has had an outsized impact on women with young children. While men with young children have largely recovered their hours of […] Parisa Mahboubi – Let’s Modernize To Protect Canada’s Growing Gig Economy
From: Parisa Mahboubi To: Canadian Ministers of Employment and Labour Date: October 21, 2020 Re: Let’s modernize to protect Canada’s growing gig economy The so-called gig economy and platform work have been growing globally and in Canada ever since the 2008-09 recession, driven by technological and economic changes and the desire for greater flexibility by workers and employers. […] 1.3m Canadians Out Of Work For More Than 6 Months
In Tammy Schirle and Mikal Skuterud’s latest Intelligence Memo, the authors highlighted an unprecedented increase in long-term joblessness. The accompanying graph shows the number of Canadians jobless for more than six months increased by 107 percent between March and September, far exceeding the peak increase of 37 percent over the same length of time in the 2008 financial […] Schirle, Skuterud – Long-term Joblessness: A Significant Policy Challenge On The Horizon?
From: Tammy Schirle and Mikal Skuterud To: Canadians Concerned about the Labour Market Date: October 20, 2020 Re: Long-term joblessness: a significant policy challenge on the horizon? Between March and September 2020, the number of Canadians who have been jobless for more than six months increased by 107 percent, far exceeding the peak increase of 37 percent over […] Miles Corak – Employment Insurance Reform That Promotes Agency
From: Miles Corak To: Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough Date: October 19, 2020 Re: Employment Insurance Reform That Promotes Agency More than one out of every three dollars distributed through the Employment Insurance (EI) program are for so-called Special Benefits, those parts of the program associated with maternity and parental leave, with caregiving, and with sickness. The fact that […] Gig workers need more than temporary government relief programs – Globe and Mail Op-Ed
Since the previous recession in 2008-09, the so-called gig economy and platform work have been growing globally and in Canada. The growth is mainly due to technological and economic changes and the desire for greater flexibility by workers and employers.
However, the legal employment framework remains outdated. The COVID-19 crisis has a strong potential to exacerbate the trend by shifting more working-age Canadians into temporary or contracted employment, rather than traditional stable and permanent employment.
There is still limited consensus on what the gig economy is, how to classify gig workers and, consequently, how to address concerns about protections for gig workers. There are three approaches to…
Mahboubi, Maqbool – Canada Will Benefit From Opening Its Border To International Students
From: Parisa Mahboubi and Sana Maqbool To: Canadian Businesses and Governments Date: October 14, 2020 Re: Canada Will Benefit from Opening Its Border to International Students COVID-19 travel restrictions have had a significant impact on Canada’s permanent and temporary immigration. The plan to re-open the border to international students next week will help the recovery in the short-term […] Canadian Expats Are A Valuable Resource. So Why Isn’t The Country Putting Them To Use? – Globe And Mail Op-ed
In the years leading up to the pandemic, Canada’s place on the world stage was fading.
We told ourselves we were a special nation – the country that works in a world that does not. And domestically, we were indeed always stable, mostly prosperous and sometimes even cool.
But to the rest of the world, what value did Canada bring?
We struggled to attract foreign investment, and foreign buyers for our goods. In peacekeeping, we were a shadow of our former selves. In sports, we claimed the podium less often than we hoped. And in science, our victories often proved episodic.
In June, when we lost the vote for a Security Council seat at the United Nations, the rebuke was a shock only to Canadians who didn’t fully…