Today's data from @StatCan_eng shows that over 1 million Canadians have been lifted out of poverty since 2015.pic.twitter.com/lNS5u6xU63
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From coast to coast, few people are living in poverty than ever before.
Thanks to programs like the Canada Child Benefit and increases to the Guaranteed Income Supplement, Canadians have more money in their pockets. #OurPlanIsWorkingpic.twitter.com/XUjOGE2BAk
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Thanks to programs like the Canada Child Benefit over 330,000 children have been lifted out of poverty. That is a reduction of 37% in 3 years!pic.twitter.com/ZOqBTSQ0rl
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Increases to both OAS and GIS have cut the number of seniors living in poverty by more than a quarter since 2015.
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Statistics Canada says its proposed new formula for calculating poverty would increase the rate from 8.2 per cent to 11 per cent in 2018.
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Internal government documents say that 57,000 seniors the Liberals say they have helped lift out of poverty only moved above the poverty line when the government changed the measure.
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Bingo! They didn't help them, they moved the goal posts! I wish more understood that!
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