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Tackling Rural Poverty Will Require Tough Action
December 22, 2006
Tackling rural poverty in Canada may require Ottawa to introduce a guaranteed annual income, offer transportation funding and promote rural tourism, according to three University of Guelph professors quoted this week in a new report on rural poverty.
Profs. Harry Cummings, Tony Fuller and Donald Reid, all from the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD), provided testimony to a standing Senate committee on agriculture and forestry that is looking at ways to reduce rural poverty in Canada. The committee, chaired by Senator Joyce Fairbairn, released its interim report, called Understanding Freefall: The Challenge of the Rural Poor, this week.
This is believed to be the first-ever federal report to focus on rural poverty. Recommendations will be included in a final report due in Spring 2007.
