poverty reduction
When the Poverty Reduction Act received Royal Assent in June of 2019, it served to focus federal government attention on combatting poverty as never before. The Act established Canada’s first Official Poverty Line, the Market Basket Measure (MBM) that would price on a regional basis a basket of goods and services required to meet basic […]
On August 21, 2018 the federal government introduced what it labelled as Opportunity For All: Canada’s First Poverty Reduction Strategy, a product of lengthy public consultations over two years. The document repeats the Liberal mantra of “strengthening the middle class and helping those working hard to join it” from the federal election campaign and the […]