End Child and Family Poverty in Canada
Media Advisory
November 22, 2007
Campaign 2000 to Release Report Card on Child
Poverty in Canada
2007 Report comes out November 26 in Ottawa
Toronto - Campaign 2000 will release its annual Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Ottawa on Monday, November 26th. Federal party leaders have been invited to be present at the press conference.
The 2007 report, entitled It Takes a Nation to Raise a Generation, presents the latest statistics on child and family poverty, and recommendations for all political parties. Itwill be released November 26, 10:00 a.m. Charles Lynch Press Conference Room (130S) on Parliament Hill to mark the 18th anniversary of the unanimous House of Commons resolution to end child poverty in Canada by 2000.
Speakers at the press conference:
Ann Decter, National Coordinator, Campaign
2000;
Emily Noble, President, Canadian Teachers
Federation;
Dr. Adje van de Sande, School of Social Work, Carleton University (porte
parole francophone).
The report will be available at www.campaign2000.ca on November 26th. Provincial report cards on child poverty are also being released on November 26th in British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and a fact sheet in Alberta.
For further information, please contact:
Jacquie Maund
Ontario Coordinator, Campaign 2000
416-595-9230 Ext.
241
Ann Decter
National Coordinator, Campaign 2000
416-706-4686 or 416-595-9230,
ext. 228
Provincial Report Card contacts:
B.C. – Michael Goldberg, First Call (604) 222-2290 or Adrienne
Montani (604) 875-3629
Alberta – Bill Moore-Kilgannon, Public Interest Alberta (780)
420-0471
Manitoba – Sid Frankel, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg (204)
474-9706
New Brunswick – Randy Hatfield, Human Development Council (506)
636-8540
Nova Scotia – Pauline Raven, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
(902) 542-3085
Campaign 2000 is a non-partisan, cross-Canada network of 120
national, provincial and community partner organizations committed
to working to end child poverty in Canada.
www.campaign2000.ca
