Refugee advocates, including CPJ's Getting Landed Project, pushed the federal government to drop the tax. The government did so in its February 2000 budget, although immigrants still have to pay the fee. Let's invest campaign send a postcard or circulate a petition calling upon Parliament to use federal budget 2000 to introduce a multi-year plan to improve the well being of Canada s children. Send copies to CPJ, Immigration Minister Elinor Caplan and your local newspaper. Yet during the 1990s, roughly one child in six still struggled though life hampered by poverty.
Thousands go hungry, as a new study affirms.
The federal government responded with modest steps in its 2000 budget, including improved child tax benefits for low-income families and extended maternity benefits. More than 640,000 Canadians signed the Jubilee debt relief petition.