Jean-Yves Duclos at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On February 26th, 2019. See this statement in context.

February 26th, 2019 / 1:25 p.m.

Liberal

I'll cheat. I'll spread the breaking news that you mentioned, Wayne.

This morning, Statistics Canada released the results of the Canadian income survey. We have now reduced poverty between 2015 and 2017 by more than 20%. In two years, 825,000 Canadians have been lifted out of poverty, and that's only until 2017.

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