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Backgrounder: Parental sharing benefit

| Employment and Social Development Canada | backgrounders

Employment Insurance (EI) parental benefits are available to EI-eligible parents, allowing them to take time off work to care for a newborn or newly adopted child. The most common scenario in Canada, however, is a mother taking on the primary caregiving responsibilities. Child care duties continue to fall disproportionately to mothers, both in the short term following the arrival of a child and over the longer term.


Backgrounder: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

| Employment and Social Development Canada | backgrounders

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda) presents Canada and the world with a historic opportunity to positively shape how societies of tomorrow grow and develop to the shared benefit of all. That is why Canada, and all other 192 member countries, adopted the 2030 Agenda at the United Nations General Assembly in 2015.


Government of Canada launches consultations on the National Strategy for Sustainable Development

| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases

The Government of Canada strongly supports the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and is committed to working with its national and international partners to build a more peaceful, inclusive and prosperous world, that leaves no one behind. In September 2015, Canada and all other 192 United Nation member States adopted the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which is a blueprint towards ending poverty, protecting the planet and ensuring equal opportunity for everyone by 2030.


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2017-05-26