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Old 11-10-2011, 10:01 AM   #728
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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon View Post
If everyone else has a reasonably comfortable life, as they do in Canada, why do you care?
Are you in Calgary? That seems like a very Calgarian thing to say.

As someone that has worked with food banks and soup kitchens from Halifax to Toronto, I can say that there are a *lot* of people - including the working poor - that do not have a reasonably comfortable life. What particularly pisses me off is our horrible ranking in terms of child poverty:
http://www.campaign2000.ca/resources...rtyTooHigh.pdf
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