I was determined not to campaign solely in the leafy, relatively well-off districts of the Glebe, Clemow Avenue, and south Ottawa neighbourhoods. This was poverty, a walk-up in Mechanicsville, in a damp three-storey building that seemed never to have been cleaned. What will you do for me then, eh?”In those walk-ups, anger and cynicism seemed not one bit out of place. (Conservative Leader Robert) Stanfield has raised poverty directly in the campaign. But by and large, about 20 per cent of Ottawa Centre residents lived beneath the poverty line as then defined.

Source: thestar January 12, 2020 12:08 UTC