Action Alerts
It's time to act on Child Poverty
It's time to act on Child Poverty Act now to give all of Canada’s children the right to a decent life

We’d like to tell you that November 24 is a day to feel good about being a Canadian. But right now, we can’t. Twenty years ago, on November 24, 1989, all of our elected representatives voted in the House of Commons to make child poverty history in Canada by the year 2000. It was to be our legacy for the generations of the new Millennium.

Sadly, it is 2009 and our MPs have failed to keep that promise. One in 10 Canadian children still live in poverty. Even more shocking, that figure does not include children in the Territories, on reserves, or in shelters. In First Nations’ and Inuit communities 1 in every 4 children grows up in poverty. www.makepovertyhistory.ca