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Having failed to have met their own set targets in the child poverty reduction strategy and blaming the Stephen Harper government and the economy for it, the Ontario Liberals have now made a new promise to eradicate homelessness.
During a press conference held on Wednesday, Deputy Premier Deb Matthews confessed that her government has failed to meet a goal it set in 2008 to reduce child poverty in Ontario by 25% in five years. Mathews stated that “we knew that one level of government could not achieve that ambitious goal all by itself so we laid out a very clear plan on how to meet that target.” In addition to that, Matthews added that “we as a province did our part, we did everything we said we would do when we released that strategy in 2008. And had the other elements of the strategy – particularly the responsibilities we believe lie with the federal government – had the federal government done its part we would have come very close if not have achieved our goal of a 25% reduction in child poverty.”
At the time, then government of Dalton McGuinty had asked the federal government to double the Working Income Tax Benefit and increase the National Child Benefit Supplement to help it meet the target. Whereas, Matthews claims that almost 50,000 children and their parents have been lifted out of poverty through measures undertaken by her government. Whereas now, the government has increased the goal to 90,000 kids out of poverty.
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