This is largely due to the excessively high cost of brand name drugs. The real problem in the medicare system isnt spending on needed medical services, or people abusing the system. The real problem is multinational companies making billions from peoples illnesses. In 1993 1.4 million children under the age of 18 were living in poverty one out of every five. This is the highest rate of child-poverty in 14 years.
Children are poor because their parents are poor.
In total, there were 4.7 million poor people in Canada in 1993, or 17.4 per cent of the population. Not everyone has been suffering in these tough economic times. Putting people back to work. The main goal of the Alternative Federal Budget is to put people back to work. Stable jobs at decent wages are the best social security and the main source of taxes needed to pay for social programs and debt reduction.