| Employment and Social Development Canada
| backgrounders
Employment Insurance (EI) parental benefits are available to EI-eligible parents, allowing either parent to take time off work to care for a newborn or newly adopted child. The most common scenario in Canada, however, is the 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 their child, and over the longer term, often due to the challenges of re entering the workforce after time spent away.
| Employment and Social Development Canada
| media advisories
The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, will discuss how the Government of Canada is improving Employment Insurance parental benefits to help promote economic growth and improve the quality of life for families and communities.
| Employment and Social Development Canada
| backgrounders
Reaching Home is designed to support the goals of the National Housing Strategy, in particular to support the most vulnerable Canadians in maintaining safe, stable and affordable housing and to reduce chronic homelessness nationally by 50 percent by 2027–28. Reaching Home puts communities at the forefront of tackling homelessness. While Housing First remains the model supported by the Government of Canada, and an effective tool to reduce homelessness, we chose to give communities more flexibility in how they use their funding to meet local needs, including the needs of vulnerable populations such as young people, LGBTQ2 communities, women fleeing violence, racialized communities, veterans and persons with disabilities.
| Employment and Social Development Canada
| news releases
Homelessness has an economic and social impact on every community in Canada. The Government of Canada is committed to helping those who are in need and believes that one homeless Canadian is one too many.
| Employment and Social Development Canada
| backgrounders
In Budget 2017, the Government committed to establish a new organization to support skills development and measurement in Canada, based on the Advisory Council on Economic Growth and the Forum of Labour Market Ministers’ recommendations.
| Employment and Social Development Canada
| media advisories
The Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, along with the Honourable Bill Morneau, Minister of Finance, will announce how the Government of Canada is taking concrete steps to build a highly skilled and resilient workforce now and into the future.
