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Across Canada, 4.3 million people, including 979,000 children and their families, live in poverty (Statistics Canada, 2010 Incomes in Canada, LIM-AT). That’s about one in eight (13 per cent) people who are living in dire straits in our wealthy land.
For the health of all Canadians, the health of the economy and the health of the Canadian federation, the premiers need to strengthen their poverty reduction strategies and call on the federal government to adapt its own comprehensive and co-ordinated plan.