Child poverty by federal riding: the work ahead for Canada’s next Parliament

Canada ratified the Convention of the Rights of the Child in 1991 and in 2015 adopted the UN’s Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, a global call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. [...] The reduction in the number of children living in poverty is spread across 308 ridings across the country and range from a high of 24.8% in Scarborough—Guildwood to a mere .1% in the riding of Brampton West. [...] Ridings with the Highest Rates of Child Poverty in 2017 As the map shows, ridings in the highest quintile are found in all provinces and territories except for Newfoundland and Labrador and Yukon. [...] Figure 1 shows the ridings in Winnipeg with some of the highest rates of child poverty in the country (Winnipeg Centre and Winnipeg North, illustrated in red), neighbouring ridings with the lowest rates of child poverty (Charleswood—St. [...] We name First Nations and use the term Aboriginal deliberately in order to be consistent with the language used in cited sources and to maintain the specificity of recommendations and the accuracy of the data as it is being reported.