Finance committee  The market basket measure was first developed in the late 1990s, in part having to do with a certain amount of frustration with the other existing measures. For example, the low-income cut-off, which is often called LICO, had very coarse regional divisions. For example, a city su

Finance committee  Thank you, Chair. Hello, members. I was both honoured and humbled to be part of the deputy minister's staff during 2017, supporting Minister Duclos' consultations and efforts in developing the poverty reduction strategy. This is a historic piece of legislation because it establ