Opposition MPs call for national strategy to end poverty, Tory Senator Segal calls for guaranteed annual income

MPs say there should be a federal poverty commissioner, similar to the environment commissioner.

The House Human Resources Committee spent three years consulting almost every major poverty expert in the country, but opposition MPs say Canada will likely have to wait for a change in government to come up with a national strategy to ever end poverty.

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