Capital Confidential.

POVERTY; POOR people; PETTIGREW, Pierre; SOCIAL policy; GOVERNMENT policy

Reveals that Canada does not have a government-sanctioned poverty line. How Statistics Canada qualifies low-income families; How the lack of an accepted statistic has led to bitter arguments in Canada; Why anti-poverty groups have resisted calls for developing an index; Efforts that Human Resources Development Minister Pierre Pettigrew will be making to develop a gauge of poverty.