Canada's Poverty Reduction Pillars
Dignity
Lifting Canadians out of poverty by ensuring basic needs—such as safe and affordable housing, healthy food, and health care are met;
Opportunity & Inclusion
Helping Canadians join the middle class by promoting full participation in society and equality of opportunity;
Supporting the middle class by protecting Canadians from falling into poverty and by supporting income security and resilience.
Resilience & Security
The following are the Canadian Governments targets indicating what goals would have to be met to indicate a reduction or irradiation in Canadian Poverty (Government of Canada,2018)
Opportunity for All offers a bold vision for Canada as a world leader in the eradication of poverty, with progress validated in terms of its alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of ending poverty.
Government of Canada 2018
I’ve chosen to examine poverty through the lens of dignity for all.
I have chosen to look at my project from the lens of the first reduction pillar which is dignity it is said in the 2024 poverty report that dignity is meeting people where they are and treating them as humans (Government of Canada, 2018).