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Ex-PM urges Ottawa to beef up anti-poverty measures
Sunday, February 20th, 2011
Feb 17, 2011
The federal government has been so preoccupied with fiscal restraint and the fallout from the financial crisis that it has let domestic poverty slide off the national agenda, says former prime minister Joe Clark… But he…is encouraged by signs that parliamentarians of all stripes recognize there is a national problem that needs to be tackled. For proof, he points to a recent report on poverty from the all-party House of Commons human resources committee… while all parties agree that reducing poverty is important, they have all appended notes to the report stating their disagreement about how.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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