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Poverty And The Poverty Of Canada

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Imagine if you were deprived of power, security, choices, resources, and capabilities that allows everyone to live life heartily? Sounds terrible, and impossible right? Unfortunately for every group of seven people in Canada there is one person who knows this isn’t impossible at all; it’s their reality, and it’s called poverty. Being one of the eight richest and highly industrialized countries in the entire world, and apart of the G8 countries, Canada is still the only one that hasn’t devised a national anti-poverty plan or even a housing plan. Which is absurd, because according to a 2010 report by the Wellesley Institute titled Precarious Housing in Canada between 150,000 –to 300,000 people are homeless in Canada, and up to another 900,000 are part of the ‘hidden homeless’; these are people who live in poor living conditions/ overcrowded housing. In Canada, 546,000 children across the country live in conditions of poverty, almost 1 in every 5 households experience serious housing affordability issues, and overall 4.9 million people in Canada live in poverty, while the government fails to address the huge, growing issue. It’s absolutely shameful. The federal government of Canada needs to consider the human rights and wellbeing of all the people suffering from poverty, and devise a national anti-poverty plan, which they can definitely handle. Poverty is something serious that affects the health and wellbeing of people of all ages that suffer from it. To live in

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