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Introduction (I'd rather you improvise but you could use this if you must) Richard Shillington has degrees in statistics and has conducted for 30 years research on health, social and economic policy. He has worked variously for governments, the private sector and NGO's. He also comments for television, radio and newspapers on issues of taxation, human rights and social policy. Biography Richard Shillington has post-graduate degrees in statistics from the University of Waterloo. He has been engaged in the quantitative analysis of health, social and economic policy for the past 30 years. His research has covered several policy fields; health manpower planning, program evaluation, income security, poverty, tax policy and human rights. He has worked for several provincial and federal departments as well as commissions studying the economy, unemployment insurance, human rights and tax policy. He appears regularly before committees of the House of Commons and the Senate. He also provides commentaries regularly for television, radio and newspapers on issues of taxation, human rights and social policy. Internationally, Dr. Shillington has been doing work on social indicators for the Social Policy Development Centre in Pakistan and on monitoring human rights for the South Africa Human Rights Commission. Significant Publications: The Income Testing of Seniors' Social, Health and Income Supports; The National Council on Aging
Measuring the Effectiveness of Employment Insurance; Human Resources and Skills Development Canada; Ottawa; 2004 (forthcoming) Policy Options to Support Dependent Care: The Tax Transfer System; Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women; July 2004 Shillington, Richard (1999), Hit the Least Vulnerable in Cutting ‘MTRS’, Policy Options Vol. 20 No. 10; Institute for Research in Public Policy.
The Extent of Prescription Drug Plan Coverage in Canada; Health Canada Adding Social Condition to the Canadian Human Rights Act: Some Issues, Canadian Human Rights Act Review Panel, Dept. of Justice The Dark Side of Targeting: Retirement Saving for Low-Income Canadians, C.D. Howe Institute Mission for the Millenium; A Discussion Paper, Campaign 2000 (an anti-poverty group) The Tax System and Social Policy Reform in Remaking Canadian Social Policy Financing Options and Their Gender Implications: Change the Year's Basic Exemption, Levy Contributions on a Wider Earnings Base in Roundtable on Canada Pension Plan Reform: Gender Implications The Tax Treatment of Disability, for the Task Force on Disability Issues Tax Treatment of RRSP's and RPP's in Roundtable on Canada's Aging Society and Retirement Income System; Caledon Institute on Social Policy The Canadian Fact Book on Poverty - 1994, Canadian Council on Social Development. Incidence of Taxes in Ontario in 1991 in Taxation and the Distribution of Income Notes on the Federal Government's Supplementary Paper: Income Security for Children: Child Benefits; Advisory Committee on the Status of Women. The Economic Profile and Labour Market Participation Patterns of Persons with Disabilities in Canada, Department of the Secretary of State.
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