2. I'd like to see a rather more sophisticated breakdown of where the poverty has been reduced. Has poverty gone done universally across all groups? Including First Nations? This opinion piece puts a lot of emphasis on grassroots community-level change starting the ball rolling, but has that actually happened on the Prairies or the Atlantic provinces?
There's a world of difference between Toronto and Thunder Bay, even though they're in the same province. When Brooks uses stats that says poverty has declined, is that truly across the board, or is that just in the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal corridor? Because the urban-rural divide here is just as stark as in the States, and just saying "Canada" doesn't capture the spectrum of lifestyles here.
https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/news/...
With further breakdown:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/190226/dq190...
It seems to me the key drivers are increase in guaranteed income supplements and the child tax benefits. Also believe the economy in urban centres have been doing quite well combined with highly educated workforce. As others have mentioned nobody feels better off, the dramatic increase in housing prices makes everyone feel as if we are living worse off then before. However I believe the housing crisis isn't due to immigration alone but a combination of factors including low interest rates, increase in personal income, limited desirable housing supply due to poor public transit investment and bad planning policy in the urban centres.