Human Resources committee  From what I've read recently, there are some trends starting, retailers giving to Food Banks Canada. It might be interesting to look at how to encourage that and an education process about what we do with our food, and how much we buy or don't buy and how much we waste. There are

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  First, I think we need to understand some of the situations. You need to look through a disability lens. You need to look through a gender lens to understand, just as Kendra Milne was saying. There are a number of ways you can do this. They are detailed in the national anti-pove

Human Resources committee  A very brief answer is that I'm making choices between paying my hydro and buying food. I don't have enough money at the end of the day. I can't make ends meet. That's basically it, but I'd like to respond to his—

Human Resources committee  Thank you again for your question. I think the kinds of solutions that are effective are those that are comprehensive. When we have a piecemeal or targeted policy here and there, someone is left out; there's some impact on another part of a person's life. For example, if in my p

Human Resources committee  I did everything I could. I have a master's degree and worked in my field, and I still lived in poverty. That's an example of how it needs to be comprehensive. It's not just a job and it's not just education. It needs to be the whole of it.

Human Resources committee  Thank you for your question. Our workshops offer human rights education around economic, social, and cultural rights. Actually, in Canada, I don't think we understand our human rights, and I believe that they should be integrated into our curriculums in schools across the nation

Human Resources committee  What's the question around that?

Human Resources committee  Yes, absolutely. On the social condition, we know about the social determinants of health. We know about all the outplay of this. It has to be comprehensive and systematic, based on human rights.

Human Resources committee  Thank you for inviting Canada Without Poverty to appear at this important study of poverty reduction strategies. CWP is a federally incorporated charitable organization dedicated to the elimination of poverty in Canada. Since our inception in 1971 as a national anti-poverty org

Justice committee  Speaking as a person who's lived in poverty for such a long time, and as a social worker, poverty intersects so many different people for so many different reasons. My response is yes, but let's remain flexible and let's make this more explicit. People don't talk about poverty, o

Justice committee  It was more of an individual matter, and the lack of access, that impacted my life tremendously. I don't think it would be something...maybe it could have been something to take to the court challenges program, but it was more individual.

Justice committee  I'm from Quebec.

Justice committee  It's a number of those things. It's complex. As a social worker, I've seen a lot of complex cases where there are a number of different aspects that are intertwined and intersect that impact people.

Justice committee  That's something that needs to be looked at for sure. There needs to be some changes to that, where legal aid doesn't exist. We need to have more legal aid accessible to people. Rates sometimes are incredibly...people have to be in tremendously dire straights before being able to