Tough on poverty, tough on crime

TheStar Tough on poverty, tough on crime
The most famous call for a Canadian GAI was issued 40 years ago by Senator David Croll. It was 1971 when his Senate committee on poverty issued its report.
“Poverty is the great social issue of our time,” Croll wrote. “The poor do not choose poverty. It is at once their affliction and our national shame. No nation can achieve true greatness if it lacks the courage and determination to undertake the surgery necessary to remove the cancer of poverty from its body politic........”

The Just Society

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/943183--time-to-re-evaluate-the-just-society
With revolutions happening all over the Middle East it is a fine time for Canadians, and especially Torontonians, to invest some time in thinking about the meaning of democracy. It isn’t just about voting, it is about maintaining a “just society” with room for all. As Hugh Segal eloquently stated in his opinion piece in on Sunday, crime is mostly a symptom of poverty. We have the tools to handle that.....

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