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Sheila Block

Brief To The Standing Committee On Finance Regarding Study Of Income Inequality In Canada

The Wellesley Institute is a non-partisan research and policy institute. Our focus is research and pragmatic policy solutions on issues of population health and health disparities. We appreciate the opportunity to provide this brief to the Standing Committee on Finance. Given the mounting evidence on the economic and social impacts of inequality, we believe that it is very timely that the Finance Committee is studying this issue. We hope that this study will be the first step in a comprehensive federal policy agenda to reduce income inequality.

Brief To The Standing Committee On Finance Regarding Study Of Income Inequality In Canada

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Sheila Block

Sheila Block

Sheila Block was Director, Economic Analysis at the Wellesley Institute 2010-2015. Sheila is an economist whose research interests include labour markets and public finance. Sheila joined Wellesley Institute in 2010 after more than 15 years of advocacy and research for organizations including the Ontario Federation of Labour and the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario. She has also worked both as a political advisor and public servant in the Ontario government.

Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.