Jean-Yves Duclos, minister of families, children and social services, says crafting national strategies on affordable housing and delivering a national strategy on child care are among his priorities. For a national poverty-reduction strategy, we want to take advantage of the work that has already been done. All the provinces and territories already have poverty-reduction strategies except British Columbia. There was no mention of Ottawa’s poverty-reduction strategy in the budget. The Canada Child Benefit, housing, homelessness, Old Age Security, the social transfer and grants .

Source: thestar June 15, 2016 09:00 UTC