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Has the Trudeau government weaponized poverty?
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This week on NOW and NEXT:
We go deep on two line items in the the federal budget.
Legislated poverty is now a nationally funded program. The 2024 Trudeau budget threw pocket change at the Canada Disability Benefit and, in so doing, managed to add to the $80 billion annual cost of poverty in this country. The government's refusal to fully fund the Canada Disability Benefit leaves more than a million Canadians to languish in poverty. It's a polticial play that effectively weaponizes poverty.
We talk to Daily Bread Food Bank CEO Neil Hetherington.
AND...we talk housing...housing....and housing.
Richard Lyall, President of the Residential Council of Ontario says the announcements are promising but will they do anything to lower to cost of building...not the cost to purchase...the cost to build new homes?
[Don't hold your breath]
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We go deep on two line items in the the federal budget.
Legislated poverty is now a nationally funded program. The 2024 Trudeau budget threw pocket change at the Canada Disability Benefit and, in so doing, managed to add to the $80 billion annual cost of poverty in this country. The government's refusal to fully fund the Canada Disability Benefit leaves more than a million Canadians to languish in poverty. It's a polticial play that effectively weaponizes poverty.
We talk to Daily Bread Food Bank CEO Neil Hetherington.
AND...we talk housing...housing....and housing.
Richard Lyall, President of the Residential Council of Ontario says the announcements are promising but will they do anything to lower to cost of building...not the cost to purchase...the cost to build new homes?
[Don't hold your breath]
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