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applegrove

(123,188 posts) Wed Dec 13, 2023, 10:15 PM Dec 2023

Canada has the lowest child poverty rate in the G7. Since 2015, we've helped lift over 650,000 kids out

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Canada has the lowest child poverty rate in the G7.

Since 2015, we've helped lift over 650,000 kids out of poverty and halved Canada's poverty rate with programs like the Canada Child Benefit.

That’s real progress towards building a better future for all Canadians.

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Canada has the lowest child poverty rate in the G7. Since 2015, we've helped lift over 650,000 kids out (Original Post) applegrove Dec 2023 OP

Crazy Canucks. How ya gonna groom 'em for slavery if they're not made desperate? Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2023 #1

I know it. It could be everywhere in the world were it not for autocrats. applegrove Dec 2023 #2

Oooh! What a great encapsulation! "Autocrats: colonialism of their own country" Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2023 #3

I like it. applegrove Dec 2023 #4

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,592 posts)

1. Crazy Canucks. How ya gonna groom 'em for slavery if they're not made desperate?

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Dec 14, 2023, 12:37 AM

Dec 2023

You're depriving some obscenely wealthy person of another yacht or mansion. It's nuts!

applegrove

(123,188 posts)

2. I know it. It could be everywhere in the world were it not for autocrats.

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 14, 2023, 12:42 AM

Dec 2023

Autocrats: colonialism of their own country.

Bernardo de La Paz

(50,934 posts)

3. Oooh! What a great encapsulation! "Autocrats: colonialism of their own country"

Reply to applegrove (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 14, 2023, 04:52 AM

Dec 2023

Liked it. Will try to use that, to remember it.

It can be adapted. "Wealth and income disparity: colonialism of their consumers and workers by billionaires". I originally wrote "colonialism by billionaires", but that doesn't get into the idea of low minimum wages and high rents in their own country, mostly or worst case in US.

applegrove

(123,188 posts)

4. I like it.

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 14, 2023, 01:39 PM

Dec 2023

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