Here's something you wouldn't expect - the poor of the country are getting poorer.
A new study released by Canada's National Council of Welfare says that last year was a time of particular want for the have-nots because provincial governments are busily scaling back their assistance programs.
According to the council, 1.7 million Canadians needed assistance last year, among them 500,000 children. Alberta welfare recipients faced the worst difficulties, while those in New Brunswick did little better. Those two provinces are rated as the "stingiest" by the Council, which is calling on the national government to rethink its national poverty strategies.
It would seem that some few in Ottawa have been taking too seriously the words of
W. H. Harrison, the ninth president of the U.S., when he declared, "I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer."
A new study released by Canada's National Council of Welfare says that last year was a time of particular want for the have-nots because provincial governments are busily scaling back their assistance programs.
According to the council, 1.7 million Canadians needed assistance last year, among them 500,000 children. Alberta welfare recipients faced the worst difficulties, while those in New Brunswick did little better. Those two provinces are rated as the "stingiest" by the Council, which is calling on the national government to rethink its national poverty strategies.
It would seem that some few in Ottawa have been taking too seriously the words of
W. H. Harrison, the ninth president of the U.S., when he declared, "I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer."
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Canada should be ashamed of itself ... we should be ashamed of ourselves. We live in a first world nation -- how can we not take care of our own? Why are we not taking care of our own? It shouldn't even be considered charity -- especially for the children -- it should be a basic right not to be in poverty.
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