Poverty won’t be solved by good intentions alone

A forthcoming national poverty reduction strategy must be permanent, have measurable targets, and real funding behind it.

Minister of Families, Children, and Social Development Jean‑Yves Duclos is expected to release a national poverty reduction strategy this year. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY PHILIPPE OZGA, SHAWN PEGG

February 7, 2018

Poverty reduction advocates, including Food Banks Canada, have high expectations for a long-awaited national poverty reduction strategy the federal government is preparing to table in early 2018. These groups have been pushing for this action for more than a decade and see the new strategy as a piv...

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