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NDP pushes anti-poverty plan
Friday, June 18th, 2010
June 16, 2010
The bill would establish a poverty elimination commissioner to hold the government accountable, Martin said. “There will be benchmarks, there will be significant accountability measures in there, reporting back to Parliament and to the people of Canada in it,” he said. Poverty costs the Canadian economy $90 billion a year, which makes it a prosperity issue, said Rob Rainer, executive director of Canada Without Poverty.
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