Election Resources

During elections, Campaign 2000 often prepares election materials as public education tools.  We review federal party platforms and compare each party's poverty reduction plan to our proposal to reduce and eventually eradicate poverty.

For example, during the most recent federal election (Oct. 2008) Campaign 2000 proposed that all federal parties set minimum targets of a 25% reduction in child poverty rate over the following five years, and a 50% reduction over 10 years. This would have lifted about 400,000 children out of poverty and put Canada well on the path to eradicating child poverty. Campaign 2000 considered that A Poverty Reduction Plan for Children and Families would include investments in the following key areas:

• increased child benefits;
• national public early childhood education and care (ECEC);
• affordable housing;
• sustainable employment and livable wages;
• restoration of Canada’s Employment Insurance (EI) program;
• support for new Canadians;
• support for urban Aboriginal Peoples and First Nation communities;
• support for Canadians living with a disability;
• post-secondary education.

We then analyzed each party's platform to see if they cover the above areas and produced a Grid on Party Platforms: Addressing Child and Family Poverty in Canada: Where do the parties stand?
Download grid summary [pdf, 2pp, 133Kb] or full grid [pdf, 10pp, 120Kb].