Is new focus on middle class over poverty good for Canadians?
All parties have shifted their rhetorical focus to helping ‘families,’ usually vaguely defined as ‘middle class.’ No federal political party is proclaiming a new ‘war on poverty.’
In 1989, the Canadian Parliament passed a resolution to abolish child poverty by 2000. To no one’s surprise, that didn’t happen. Indeed, in recent years, the anti-poverty rhetoric that dominated Canadian policy debates over income distribution has almost disappeare...
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