Income Inequality and Child Poverty in Canada: from Poor No More, a Canadian feature documentary

[mantonio121773]

Comon abuse of the worker in a capitalistic system - we should all sue for back pay. Shut them all down - if they can't pay an honest wage THEY FAIL as a company. UIf the policy in place by our government prohibits them from doing this - then our government fails!!! FIX IT ALL - people first!!!

[thecf22]

Poor little girl. All the money wasted in useless military efforts in the middle east. But wherever the states go we follow, even if it means into a depression.

[LT0WnWaRi0]

0:41 ''after the father and I sperated '' means that SHE seperated . well sometimes its better to accept the father as he is. well i guess shes gettin divorce cash and still not enough. okay than she needs to put HER lifestadards lower(no hair dyeing no make up etc.) If the kids need good clothing etc.

hope she feels better after leaving her husband to suck some mack daddys dik ;)

[MrYonomequejo]

S.T.O.P FUCKING HAVING BABIES .!!!! LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE WHO CANT AFFORD HAVING THEM!

[sansam25]

@MrYonomequejo ignorant asshole!

[batmanpronz]

Hmm, let's see. I just had my first child and I realize that I can't afford it. What should I do? Simple! Have another one. 

[sansam25]

@batmanpronz Ignorant bitch!!!

[sansam25]

@sansam25 I'd rather be a bitch than an asshole like you, so fuck off.

[sansam25]

@batmanpronz SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! YOU MORON!!!!

[1982billu]

love for the little girl 

[TheKourosh1990]

these all because of massive immigrations



[batmanpronz]

@TheKourosh1990 it's not so much raw immigration as the fact that immigrants are having litters upon litters of children after arriving in Canada.

[Shukria123]

but these changing winds can blow cold and hostile...

[burtonchalmers]

CANADA is the greatest country in the world. The sad part is all we give a fuck about is hockey players that went on strike because of a 6 million dollar cap, we need a war on poverty. Bail outs for big companies are just as bad for the economy as if they gave it us. But the truth is the money system is going to create a depression.

[scottweise18]

@burtonchalmers If its so great when why are these ppl living in poverty . Why have they been denied by the very government theyve sworn their allegiance to as citizens ? Why has the idiot of a prime minister looked the other way everytime the topic of poverty comes up . I'll tell you why: Because he's more interested in how much money he need to fill the pockets of these corporate bankers and high time industries, taking away from the money that rightfully belongs to us . Screw Canada .

[scottweise18]

@burtonchalmers I've had enough of this country . I'm gonna go somewhere where I can actually afford to live and not be forced out onto the streets . Or even a place I can make a difference and at the same time not be denied my fundamental rights as a Canadian like what happened at the G8/G20 in Toronto where the citizens, most of them peacefully assembled without any dealings with violence what so ever and were well within their rights as Canadians, were unlawfully arrested and detained .

[scottweise18]

@burtonchalmers Maybe someday if this country gets its act together I'll be back. For now I'll be happy when I leave . I only wish this family could do the same. They dont deserve to be treated like this . We have more than enough money to go around yet for some reason Stephen Harper and his bs lies say: Ohhh we can't help everyone, there's too many. Really? Then 1) why have a democracy at all if nothing's bein g done and 2) why bother being in power if you cant fix the problems or ur "promises"

[Shukria123]

There's so much poverty in Canada.

[lago4]

The ex husband must have really f-ed up if the kids ended up in their next-to-minimum-wage mother's custody.

[fossils666]

this is poverty????????? come to india...babies die of hunger....

[Shukria123]

@fossils666 India's on its way to becoming an economic powerhouse.

Every year, since 1990, millions of people in India join the middle class.

Indian babies won't be hungry for much longer, while more and more Canadian children slip into poverty.

[Shukria123]

I live in Canada. There is so much poverty and desperation here. It's like we've become a Third World country.

[smagmatits]

@Shukria123 lol wow, you've clearly never visited poor countries in southeast asia or south america, your ignorance is appalling!

[Shukria123]

@smagmatits I've been to Africa so I *have* seen Third World poverty. I've also been to Cuba, where you don't see entire families homeless, unlike in Canada and America.

Child poverty in Canada has been anywhere from 1 in 4 children in poverty to 1 in 7 in the past 20 years. Also, I work in Surrey, BC; I see people living in slum-like conditions there. So there is very bad child poverty in Canada.

And it should be 'you're,' not 'your, where you wrote 'your ignorance is appalling.'

[hippychic12]

@Shukria123 "Your ignorance is appalling" is correct. You're is an abbreviation for you are. "You are ignorance is appalling" ? incorrect. Canada has a poverty problem...it doesn't remotely compare to a 3rd world country. Visit a 3rd world country, you'll truly be appalled. I live below the poverty line & as a Canadian, I live far better than those in a 3rd world country. It's rough...& in a wealthy country like Canada...it shouldn't happen, but it's not 3rd world conditions.

[Shukria123]

@hippychic12 Take a drive through the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver sometime. Take

a drive through the Guildford area of Surrey sometime. The conditions in those areas are appalling

and do approach third levels of poverty. I've lived in Canada for 31 years, and I have

never seen so much poverty and desperation here.

I have visited third world countries. I've visited Cuba and their standard of living is not much lower than ours - everyone there is healthy.

[lucy9359]

@hippychic12 It doesn't matter to me if you decide someone is ignorant or not for saying so but I suggest you go onto an Indian Reservation before you make that claim it is definately 3rd world ok!

[OperationMaple]

@smagmatits Third world conditons are appalling, I agree. When producing this film we interviewed families where through no fault of their own, kids didn't have healthy food to eat or a change of clother.They lived in roach filled housing and their parents didn't give up looking for work. In a country as rich as Canada is we should all be able to make a living and not have to comprimise our children's future.

[jetsundolma1]

Why is she talking about this in front of her children!

[guitarphone]

I think Poverty is over exaggerated in Canada. Even people who live on Low-Income still have a place to live. If Welfare benefits were any higher people would consider living off of that for the rest of their lives. The mom in the documentary said she worked at a grocery store. That is the reason she is considered poor. She could have had post-secondary education and a better life. She shouldn't have had two kids two begin with.

[jetsundolma1]

@guitarphone You make A LOT of assumptions here about how she could have had this or shouldnt have done that. I suppose no one should have children based on the premise that they might be left to raise them on their own....Perhaps she could go back to school and go into debt for a post secondary education, then she might be in the same position because of loan payments. I think the main point here is that poverty is an issue regardless of how you may judge people.

[puffpuffpass247]

so true it gets worse and worse the workers dont care and treat you like dirt and you start to feel like dirt

[Johanofsweden]

Come over here! If you can contribute, try it!

[miryclayu2]

Hey St Catherines woman, Maybe you could have a man around for financial purposes? Your kids might like you more.

[TomJackson986]

Canada has 40% poverty its pretty insane that almost half of our population are living in horrible conditions

[OperationMaple]

@TomJackson986

Tom when shooting this film it was appalling to see the poverty in downtown

Toronto. One house Mary and I went had no heat in the middle of winter.

[TomJackson986]

@OperationMaple Canadians are well entitled and they have plenty of social benefits, we really dont live in Afghanistan or Africa our poor are for the most part a different type of poor whom live in heated homes and have enough food to become fat. Theres not many nations in this world where you can be poor and fat, and the homeless now always have a place to sleep.. It is not the same as the 90s and early 2000's when they didnt have such incentive to be poor.

[Shukria123]

@TomJackson986 You say homeless in Canada always have a place to sleep:

I live in Vancouver, BC; I see hundreds of homeless sleeping on the streets here.

They're not living in heated homes.

Re. social benefits, our social benefits are a joke. I applied for EI once, and I didn't get anything because I hadn't worked enough hours or something.

[onbradley]

@Shukria123 That'sbecause Canada has a liberal attitude towards drugs--especially in Vancouver, and many of those folks are perprtually high, making them impossible to house. Addtionally, the rest of the country is deadly cold for 7+ months a year. If we could send everyone in this country of 50+ million people back to where they were born, there'd be about 15 homeless people in the city. It's just that simple!

[Shukria123]

@onbradley Yeah, but that guy said homeless in Canada always have

a place to sleep, which isn't true, as evidenced by the thousands of homeless people on Canadian streets. And most homeless don't appear to

immigrant types; sending people "back to where they were born' isn't

going to solve homelessness.

[TheJimclay]

@Shukria123

I agree 100%..

[ampleoppourtunity]

Am Heart broken.

[MrGulsaeed]

i want to quote verse of holy Quran"." And they ask you what they ought to spend. Say: "That which is beyond your needs." Thus Allâh makes clear to you His Laws in order that you may give thought."

superfluous money with indivisul is the main problem in society

[Wbeliever7]

precious little girl