This is the proposal with which the current political work is being done. It calls for the creation of a Council for the elimination of poverty, which includes people living in a situation of poverty, to oversee and ensure the program's enforcement. All government action must be coherent with the principles and goals of the legislation. People who live in poverty, including the most excluded, must be consulted throughout the process. The entire government, and particularly the Quebec premier, has responsibilities assigned by the law and must report on progress annually.
Mechanisms allow for the population to participate in monitoring the law.
By specifying rights for which poverty should not constitute an obstacle, this law also moves forward the application of the Quebec Charter of Rights and Freedoms. We have gradually learned that our approach is coherent with an increasing awareness on the international level to the effect that equal rights cannot be achieved on their own and that, as Boutros Boutros-Gali has stated. The history of popular education in Quebec had already taught us that people living in poverty must be at the heart of the process that concerns them and that society needs their knowledge, their experience, their expertise to improve itself as a society. We have found this affirmation confirmed by the evolution of international thinking on the elimination of poverty. In fact, the most simple and complete explanations of this process were found during the process itself and are quoted at the beginning of this text.