Ending Child Poverty in Canada
High hopes for federal action in 2016
Blogged By: Rebecca, Brittany, Rosalyn and Emma
As our Global Action T-shirt campaign wraps up, we are beginning to focus more on our Local Actions; tackling local poverty through making an awareness video. In order to have this video be as successful as possible, we have begun to research Canadian Poverty- something that is much more present in our communities as we may think. The newly elected federal government has made some promises regarding child poverty, with a list of progressive measures and the aim to lift more than 315,000 children out of poverty.
The government has promised to invest in affordable housing and childcare, reforming employment insurance and make maternity and parental level much more flexible. In fact, more than 1.34 million Canadian Children- close to one in five- are living in poverty. This figure has grown since 1989, when parliament vowed to eradicate the problem by 2000. The pledge to end Canadian Poverty was repeated 2 more times in 2009 and 2015…. Experts say that this may be the first time that Parliament creates a concrete goal that they can stick too! This new action plan will include comprehensive strategy and work with the legislation for a goal of cutting child poverty from 19% to 9.5% within five years. The framework will be developed collaboratively with provincial and territorial governments, as well as aboriginal/first nations governments and NGO’s in order to help people of all ethnic groups.
The above statistics are a representation of poverty in Canada by numbers. Many of the numbers are very surprising, and serve as more proof that poverty in Canada is a major problem.
This is a big step forward for Canada…. We hope to see some positive changes in our local communities in the very near future!
Statistics, Photo and information; http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/11/24/high-hopes-for-federal-action-to-end-child-poverty.html
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