From: David Amos<david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Subject: Fwd: FWD Whereas the purported "Progressive Conservatives" Tim Hudak and Christine Elliott never felt that I was worth talking to perhaps they should talk to each other about your pals Jenni Byrne, Paul Godfrey and Derek Burney EH Stevey Boy Harper?
To: <david@policyalternatives.ca>, blaine.higgs <blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, David.Coon <David.Coon@gnb.ca>, Dominic.Cardy <Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca>, Susan.Holt <Susan.Holt@gnb.ca>, Jacques.Poitras <Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, <ccpans@policyalternatives.ca>, hannah.rudderham <hannah.rudderham@cbc.ca>
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
New report shows one-third of N.B. workers earn less than $20 per hour
Living wage in capital city nearly $10 more than minimum wage
A new report compiling statistics around low-wage Atlantic Canadians reveals that one-third of New Brunswick workers earn $20 per hour or less.
Ten per cent of those workers earn under $15 an hour.
The Nova Scotia office for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released the report this week, compiling data from the 2023 Statistics Canada labour force survey.
The report shows that the one-third statistic rings true for the other Atlantic provinces as well, with Nova Scotia at 35 per cent, Prince Edward Island at 34 per cent and New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador at 33 per cent.
"Even if you were working at a full-time, $20-an-hour wage, you may be able to make choices that help you to be able to afford the essentials, but it would still be a struggle, definitely in some communities more than others," said report co-author and the Nova Scotia centre's director Christine Saulnier.
"But no matter where you're living across the region, people are facing difficulty in making ends meet," she said.
"It's quite a shocking number, if we think about one in three workers."
Christine
Saulnier, the director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Nova Scotia office, said it is concerning that there's a $10 gap between
current minimum wages and 2023 living-wage calculations. (Patrick Callaghan/CBC)
And Saulnier said that number likely would have been higher if the report examined how many workers were making below the living wage for their area.
The 2023 living wages are listed at $24.50 for Fredericton, $23.35 for Saint John, $22.75 for Moncton and $21.65 for Bathurst.
The New Brunswick minimum wage is $15.30, the lowest in the Atlantic provinces after Nova Scotia.
"Putting side by side what current minimum wages are as of July 2024 and comparing them to what our 2023 living-wage rates show us — it's upwards of a $10 gap in our region and that's that's very concerning," said Saulnier.
She also said that the way living wage is calculated is a conservative estimate, since it doesn't include any possible debt payments.
The report also broke down what industries and demographics have the highest percentage of workers paid $20 or less. In New Brunswick, accommodation and food services and retail trade topped the list.
It also indicated that 86 per cent of those workers paid less than $20 per hour are not students.
New
Brunswick Federation of Labour president Daniel Légère said the
federation and other groups are calling for a $20 per hour minimum wage.
(Ed Hunter/CBC)
And 71 per cent of those workers have full-time jobs.
Daniel Légère, the president of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour, said he wasn't surprised to see the report. He said it reinforced that New Brunswick and the Atlantic provinces have a "low-wage economy."
"And at the end of the day, workers are paying a significant price," he said.
"Work should lift people out of poverty and not keep them in it.
"What do you do at the end of the week before payday and your car is empty and you've got to get to work? How do you pay for that gas? Well, you put it on credit cards. … Workers are using credit more than they'd probably like to just to pay the bills and get to work."
Légère said the federation and other groups are calling for a $20 per hour minimum wage.
Saulnier said $20 an hour would be a market reset of sorts. She said depending on the needs of different provinces, setting a minimum wage could vary across regions, but "a $20 reset would at least bring people closer to the living wage."
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Not a chance.
Reply to Ralph Linwood
Review of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the
Mutual Fund Industry
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2003 Time: 02:00 PM
Topic
The Committee will meet in OPEN SESSION to conduct the second in a
series of hearings on the “Review of Current Investigations and
Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry.”
Witnesses
Witness Panel 1
Mr. Stephen M. Cutler
Director - Division of Enforcement
Securities and Exchange Commission
Cutler - November 20, 2003
Mr. Robert Glauber
Chairman and CEO
National Association of Securities Dealers
Glauber - November 20, 2003
Eliot Spitzer
Attorney General
State of New York
Spitzer - November 20, 2003
The living wage is calculated as the hourly rate at which a household can meet its basic needs. Households can consist of 1 or multiple people.
One-third of Atlantic Canadian Workers Paid Less than $20 an hour
HALIFAX/K’jipuktuk – A new publication, Atlantic Canadians need a raise: One-third of workers earn less than $20 an hour, from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia underscores the challenges faced by workers in Atlantic Canada. Data obtained from Statistics Canada show that one-third of workers in Atlantic Canada earn less than $20 an hour.
“With just over 27,000 workers across the region earning $20 or less an hour, Atlantic Canadians not only deserve a wage—they need one,” says Christine Saulnier, co-author of the report and CCPA-NS director. “Raising the minimum wage to $20 is an important market reset to narrow the gap to living wages.”
New data from Statistics Canada dispel common misconceptions that those who would benefit from such an increase are predominantly teenagers or students. In reality, the vast majority of these workers are not students, are over twenty, and are employed in permanent, full-time jobs.
Workers in the Atlantic provinces bring home some of the lowest wages in the country. Despite recent increases, Nova Scotia’s minimum wage remains the second lowest among all provinces in Canada. Other Atlantic provinces are not much farther ahead. The report underlines the large gap between current minimum wages in Atlantic Canada and the living wages necessary to afford basic expenses. This gap is expected to grow larger once 2024 living wage rates are calculated.
The findings highlight the urgent need for steep increases to the minimum wage for workers across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island.
“Minimum wages are becoming more and more insufficient to meet basic costs of living," co-author Kenya Thompson says. "Provincial governments need to look closely at actual costs working households face—instead of just listening to industry lobbyists—and ensure minimum wages keep pace with these costs as they work to make ends meet.”
The report, and provincial summaries of the data for each Atlantic province, are available at: https://policyalternatives.ca/
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For more information, or to arrange interviews, please contact Kenya Thompson at ccpans@policyalternatives.ca or (778) 581-2057 (cell).
The Nova Scotia office of the CCPA opened its doors in 1999. With the help of our loyal supporters and research associates, we continue to raise debate and propose policy alternatives that will get us closer to achieving an economically and socially just—as well as environmentally sustainable—province and Atlantic region.
From: David Amos<motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 9:53 AM
Subject: FWD Whereas the purported "Progressive Conservatives" Tim Hudak and Christine Elliott never felt that I was worth talking to perhaps they should talk to each other about your pals Jenni Byrne, Paul Godfrey and Derek Burney EH Stevey Boy Harper?
To: <asktvo@tvo.org>, <caroline@carolinemulroney.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
Debate proves Tanya Granic Allen will be a factor in Ontario PC leadership race
Allen promises to speak for people who oppose 'the Kathleen Wynne sex-ed agenda'
By Mike Crawley, CBC News Posted: Feb 16, 2018 6:00 AM ET
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The CROWN Versus Mean Old Me
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Published on Oct 18, 2015
Just Listen or Read
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Federal debate in Fundy Royal, New Brunswick riding featuring
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:54:44 -0400
Subject: Whereas the purported "Progressive Conservatives" Tim Hudak
and Christine Elliott never felt that I was worth talking to perhaps
they should talk to each other about your pals Jenni Byrne, Paul
Godfrey and Derek Burney EH Stevey Boy Harper?
To: tim.hudakco@pc.ola.org, christine.elliottco@pc.ola.org
<premier@ontario.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "peter.mackay"
<peter.mackay@justice.gc.ca>, derek.burney@
aradwanski@globeandmail.com, kmcparland@nationalpost.com,
ggiorno@fasken.com, "ht.lacroix"<ht.lacroix@cbc.ca>, jesse
<jesse@jessebrown.ca>, "paul.dewar.a1"<paul.dewar.a1@parl.gc.ca>,
"Paul.Collister"<Paul.Collister@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
<paul.looker@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Paul.Harpelle"<Paul.Harpelle@gnb.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
http://www.theglobeandmail.
Harper’s enforcer: Meet Jenni Byrne, the most powerful woman in Ottawa
Add to ...
Adam Radwanski The Globe and Mail Published Friday, May 29, 2015 8:00PM EDT
"As Tim Hudak prepared for his second and final shot at becoming
Ontario’s premier, the word went out through Conservative circles in
the nation’s capital: Do not help this man.
Mr. Hudak, then the leader of the provincial Progressive
Conservatives, was a kindred spirit set to run on a right-wing agenda.
He had a decent shot at knocking off a Liberal incumbent with whom
Stephen Harper had a frosty relationship. And after more than a decade
in the political wilderness, his Tories badly needed organizational
support from federal cousins who had recently been in the business of
winning.
Before Mr. Hudak’s first election leading his party, in 2011, such
support was forthcoming. The federal Conservatives lent experienced
campaign managers for target ridings, shared their volunteer lists,
and helped raise money. They even let the provincial Tories use a
campaign bus.
But on the final day of that election campaign, before the votes were
even counted, Mr. Hudak made a bad mistake that went a long way toward
souring his relationship with the federal party: He fired his chief of
staff, Lynette Corbett.
Mixed views about whether Ms. Corbett deserved to be let go, after a
behind-the-scenes power struggle among Mr. Hudak’s senior officials,
are beside the point.
What matters is that she’s among the very best friends of Jenni Byrne.
There are only a few backroom operators in this country whose bad side
needs to be avoided at all costs. And Ms. Byrne – the Prime Minister’s
campaign manager, his enforcer, his primary connection to his party’s
grassroots, and one of his longest-serving loyalists – is most
emphatically one of them.
“Pretty much from the day Lynette was fired, we couldn’t get a phone
call returned,” recalls a senior member of Mr. Hudak’s campaign team.
“It pretty quickly became clear this wasn’t an issue to be managed. It
was a fact to be accepted.”
Never mind central support; all but the bravest federal Conservatives
were reluctant even to be seen at a Hudak fundraiser, for fear of what
it would do to their careers.
It is unclear whether Mr. Harper was fully aware that his party was
choking off resources to Mr. Hudak; if he was, he didn’t much care.
Such is the leeway afforded to the woman who claimed credit for
steering the Prime Minister to majority government, and whom he will
be counting on to help him hold on to it in this year’s federal
campaign."
----- Original Message -----
From: BARRY WINTERS <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 14:17:21 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Re: Attn Christine Elliott as soon as I saw that Paul Godfrey
and Derek Burney were behind the lawyer Patrick Brown I understood the
game Did You?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Cc: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, annette boucher
<annette.boucher@novascotia.ca
<Dana.doiron@novascotia.ca>, blake@frankmagazine.ca,
comment@contrarian.ca, HANSENCE@gov.ns.ca, Parker Donham
<parker@donham.ca>, mail@trinetraproductions.com, Glen Canning
<grcanning@gmail.com>, Glen Muise <glenmuise1000@gmail.com>,
obsceneworks@gmail.com, gord@gordgamble.com, greenhkh@gov.ns.ca,
"jim.david"<jim.david@pcparty.ns.ca>, Legc office
<Legc.office@novascotia.ca>, Neil Ferguson
<Neil.Ferguson@novascotia.ca>
To all addressees. Please be advised David Amos is a wanted sex
offender with outstanding warrants in the United States
On 5/13/15, Elliott-co, Christine < christine.elliottco@pc.ola.org> wrote:
Mr. Amos. I am writing to acknowledge receipt of the 2 emails that you have
forwarded to Ms. Elliott's office. I will bring them to her attention at
the earliest opportunity.
Constituency Staff
Office of Christine Elliott
MPP, Whitby-Oshawa
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From: David Amos < motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:31 AM
Subject: Attn Christine Elliott as soon as I saw that Paul Godfrey and
Derek Burney were behind the lawyer Patrick Brown I understood the
game Did You?
To: christine.elliottco@pc.ola.org , christine@christineelliott.ca ,
derek.burney@
, premier < premier@ontario.ca>, pm < pm@pm.gc.ca>, premier <
premier@gov.ab.ca>, premier < premier@gnb.ca>, PREMIER <
PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, premier < premier@gov.bc.ca>, premier <
premier@leg.gov.mb.ca>, premier < premier@gov.pe.ca>, premier <
premier@gov.sk.ca>, premier < premier@gov.nl.ca>
Cc: David Amos < david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
FYI I just got off the phone with Brown's office in Ottawa on his last
day as an MP and his staff rememberd me.
http://www.christineelliott.
My big question to you is do you even remember me?
Here is a clue
http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/
-----Original Message-----
From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac333@gmail.
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 9:32 AM
To: Elliott-co, Christine; christine@christineelliott.ca;
derek.burney@
premier; pm; premier; premier; PREMIER; premier; premier; premier;
premier; premier
Cc: David Amos
Subject: Fwd: RE I just called Pat Martin and Brad Butt about
Commissioner Joe Friday and his testimony before the OGGO Committee on
April 28th
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 17:22:09 -0400
Subject: RE I just called Pat Martin and Brad Butt about Commissioner
Joe Friday and his testimony before the OGGO Committee on April 28th
To: pm@pm.gc.ca, Lampron.Raynald@psic-ispc.gc.
Friday.Joe@psic-ispc.gc.ca, lachapelle.edith@psic-ispc.gc.
brad.butt@parl.gc.ca, pat.martin@parl.gc.ca, OGGO@parl.gc.ca,
manon.hardy@chrc-ccdp.ca, "Gilles.Moreau"
<Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
<Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
<David.Coon@gnb.ca>, "Stephen.Horsman"<Stephen.Horsman@gnb.ca>
http://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
Debate proves Tanya Granic Allen will be a factor in Ontario PC leadership race
Allen promises to speak for people who oppose 'the Kathleen Wynne sex-ed agenda'
By Mike Crawley, CBC News Posted: Feb 16, 2018 6:00 AM ET
While the big-name candidates in the Ontario PC leadership played it
safe during the first debate of the contest, they let Tanya Granic
Allen steal the show.
Granic Allen put in by far the feistiest performance of the hour-long
televised event, taking shots at former leader Patrick Brown, calling
out "corruption" in the PC party and showing no fear of jumping into
any topic.
Three key moments from the PC leadership debate
Sex ed curriculum at issue in PC leadership race
"I'm here to be a grassroots voice for... people who are opposed to
the Kathleen Wynne sex-ed agenda, pro-lifers, free-speech advocates
and other social conservatives," declared Granic Allen as the debate
began. In the hour that followed, she more than held her own against
Christine Elliott, Doug Ford and Caroline Mulroney, firmly
establishing herself as a factor in the race.
It's a sign that social conservatives intend to have an influence over
who becomes the next PC leader, and possibly the next premier.
Granic Allen's support base cannot be insignificant: she said she was
able to generate the $100,000 entry fee to the contest through
donations. She is president of the group Parents As First Educators,
which claims 80,000 members. The group describes itself as a "leader
in the fight" against a "radical sex-ed curriculum in Ontario."
ONT Opposition Debate 20180215
Ontario Conservative party leadership candidates Tanya Granic Allen,
left to right, Christine Elliott, Doug Ford and Caroline Mulroney are
seen in TVO studios in Toronto on Thursday, February 15, 2018
following a televised debate. (Chris Young/Canadian Press)
Her candidacy means that sex-ed and other social conservative issues
are now high on the agenda among the Progressive Conservatives as the
party decides who should lead it into the spring election campaign.
Brown won the 2015 leadership race in part by courting social
conservatives, but then tried to steer the party in a different
direction. That about-face taught Granic Allen a lesson, she said in a
letter to supporters last week, aiming to raise money to run for the
leadership.
Sex-ed opponent joins Ontario PC leadership race
"When it comes to these leadership contests, we are far better off
supporting candidates who we can trust and who will speak out on our
issues," she wrote. "We have to make sure the social conservative
voice is being respected."
Granic Allen insists she is not a single-issue candidate. But during
the debate she kept raising sex ed, even when moderator Steve Paikin
tried to steer her toward other aspects of the school system.
ONT Opposition Debate 20180215
Caroline Mulroney supporters gather outside TVO studios in Toronto
ahead of the televised debate between the four Ontario PC party
leadership candidates. (Chris Young/Canadian Press)
"I have to talk about the sex ed, it's my number one priority," she said.
"What else in education today needs improving that you've got your eye
on?" asked Paikin. "Sex ed isn't going to improve math scores, so tell
me about something else."
New information raises questions about allegations against Brown
Granic Allen's reply: "Maybe they will focus more on math if they're
not talking about anal sex in the classroom."
None of the candidates challenged her directly on that assertion.
Rather, Ford and Elliott agreed that they, too, have problems with the
sex-ed reforms.
Ont Opposition Debate 150218
Ontario PC leadership candidate Doug Ford. (Chris Young/Canadian Press)
"I believe in teaching your kids at home first when it comes to this,"
said Ford, slamming "the Liberal ideology that's trying to be shoved
down our throats with the sex-ed curriculum."
Elliott questioned the "age appropriateness" of some of the
curriculum. "Maybe something that children are learning in Grade 2
now, they should learn in Grade 8 or 9 or 10."
She also claimed the curriculum "doesn't cover ... cyberbullying and
sexting and all those things related to technology." In fact, both are
specifically mentioned in the elementary and secondary health and
phys-ed curricula.
Mulroney is the only candidate opposed to scrapping the sex-ed
reforms. "I commit to consulting parents on all things that affect
families and children, but I am not going to reopen the curriculum,"
said Mulroney, who identified herself as Roman Catholic during the
debate.
Ont Opposition Debate 150218
Ontario PC leadership candidate Christine Elliott (Chris Young/Canadian Press)
Granic Allen made her presence felt throughout the hour. She dismissed
the federal carbon tax as a "cockamamie idea" hatched by Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau. She said the PC party's campaign platform,
called the People's Guarantee, "died the day Patrick Brown resigned."
She wrapped by slamming Ontario's ban on so-called conversion therapy,
aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of young
people.
Given the ranked-ballot system the PCs are using, the three big-name
candidates will be reluctant to attack Granic Allen: if she is knocked
off the ballot first, Mulroney, Ford and Elliott will all hope to be
her supporters' number-two choice. And that could drive the Ontario PC
party further toward a social conservatism that Patrick Brown
rejected.