We need to find ways to come together and put the “social” back in the social safety net! With this goal in mind, Poverty Trends 2023 uses the most recent available data to evaluate the impacts of cur- rent policies, and to hold decision-makers accountable to their legal human rights obligations. [...] The report ana- lyzes current trends in our policy landscape and calls for the strengthening of coordinated standards, supports, and action, grounded in treaties, human rights, environmental justice, and the realities of people’s day-to-day lives. [...] (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself [or herself] and of his [or her] family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his [or her] control.x This. [...] Public subsidies and preferential tax treatment are still made available to the fossil fuel industry, when the oil and gas sector is the “largest single contributor to Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions, and by extension, the main Canadian driver of climate change.xxxi” The same groups that are disproportionately impacted by poverty in Canada are also bearing the brunt of climate change, with Indig. [...] This should include the imple- mentation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
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