[homeles_ot-l] FW: Good News: House of Commons agrees today to develop a plan to eliminate poverty in Canada for all

[Lynne Browne]

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toeliminate poverty in Canada for all
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Great News: Today our Federal Government passed a motion to develop a plan
to eliminate poverty in Canada for all!  Message from Canada without Poverty
/ Un Canada sans pauvreté  - below.  This morning, a breakfast was held with
Campaign 2000 partners and some members of Parliament, to launch the Report
Card on Child and Family Poverty, followed by a rally at the centennial
flame. The motion was presented and passed later in the House of Commons.
BRAVO!

 

 

Dominique Paris-MacKay

Anti-Poverty Community Coordinator

Coordonnatrice communautaire à la lutte contre la pauvreté

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Rainer [mailto:rob at cwp-csp.ca] 
Sent: November 24, 2009 11:36 AM
To: Rob Rainer
Subject: Good News: House of Commons agrees today to develop a plan to
eliminate poverty in Canada for all
Importance: High

 

We are pleased to report some good news in the journey to more effectively
combat poverty in Canada.  Today, the House of Commons passed the following
motion as agreed to by the House of Commons’ HUMA
<http://www2.parl.gc.ca/CommitteeBusiness/CommitteeMembership.aspx?IncMem=0&
Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=2&Cmte=HUMA>  Committee:

 

That, with November 24th, 2009 marking the 20th anniversary of the 1989
unanimous resolution of this House to eliminate poverty among Canadian
children by the year 2000, and not having achieved that goal, be it resolved
that the Government of Canada, taking into consideration the Committee’s
work in this regard, and respecting provincial and territorial jurisdiction,
develop an immediate plan to eliminate poverty in Canada for all.

 

With the motion now passed, there is Parliament’s commitment to a federal
plan for the elimination of poverty.  This is a major step towards
accomplishing the first of the three goals of Dignity for All: The Campaign
for a <http://www.dignityforall.ca/>  Poverty-free Canada.  The challenge
now is for parliamentarians and civil society – including those with the
lived experience of poverty – to work together even more closely to
determine the substance and timely delivery as well as the accountability
mechanisms of the plan.  And, to root the entire effort within a framework
of Canada’s commitment to economic and social rights (food, housing,
adequate standard of living etc.) such as enshrined within international
human rights law to which Canada is signatory.

 

Today’s welcome motion came about thanks to the leading efforts of Laurel
Rothman and her team at Campaign <http://www.dignityforall.ca/>  2000,
working with certain members of the HUMA Committee and other civil society
groups.  Kudos to Campaign 2000 and to the members of the HUMA Committee for
today’s result!

 

Rob Rainer

Executive Director / Directeur executif

CANADA WITHOUT POVERTY / CANADA SANS PAUVRETÉ

1210 - 1 rue Nicholas Street

Ottawa, ON K1N 7B7

(613) 789-0096 (1-800-810-1076)

rob at cwp-csp.ca

www.cwp-csp.ca

 

NOW is the time to end poverty in Canada! 

Support  <http://dignityforall.ca/> dignity for all: the campaign for a
poverty-free canada.

 

Everyone is entitled to realization of the economic, social and cultural
rights indispensable for his [her] dignity and the free development of his
[her] personality.

- From Article 22 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

 



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