Decision time for Canada, let's make poverty history

Decision Time for Canada: Let's Make Poverty History 2005 Report Card on Child Poverty in Canada Sixteen years ago the House of Commons unanimously resolved to "seek to achieve the goal of eliminating poverty among Canadian children by the year 2000." Yet, more than 1.2 million children - one child out of every six in Canada - still lives in poverty. [...] In Canada the campaign calls for an end to child poverty in Canada as well as In a caring Canada, our political leaders will find common more and better foreign aid, trade justice and cancellation of the ground and set priorities on spending that benefits children and debts of the poorest countries. [...] The Aboriginal workforce is a critical young, and living in lone parent families, Canada must address resource for Canada, particularly to maintain the labour force as the the extremes of poverty that are their daily reality. [...] Manitoba and Saskatchewan, where Aboriginal participation will increase to 17% of the total workforce over the next Aboriginal peoples have one of the highest rates of poverty 15 years, stand to benefit significantly21. [...] An Action Plan for Children must include a commitment The contribution of immigrants will continue to be central to the through 2015 and an increase of the CCTB to $4,900 per child.