{"id":8345,"date":"2015-01-29T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/?p=8345"},"modified":"2021-01-01T09:44:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T14:44:10","slug":"letter-waging-war-poverty-not-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/letter-waging-war-poverty-not-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: We should be waging a war on poverty, not on the poor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kjap819f-eb85444fc62322d7d61479735aea54f3\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-kjap819f-eb85444fc62322d7d61479735aea54f3{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-kjap819f-eb85444fc62322d7d61479735aea54f3 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-kjap819f-eb85444fc62322d7d61479735aea54f3 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-kjap819f-eb85444fc62322d7d61479735aea54f3 av-special-heading-h5  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first '><h5 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Montreal Gazette &#8211; January 29, 2015<\/h5><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-4pjsdl-bce9050a47dd310cf0afd3f8c6895f5d\">\n.flex_column.av-4pjsdl-bce9050a47dd310cf0afd3f8c6895f5d{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-4pjsdl-bce9050a47dd310cf0afd3f8c6895f5d av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_heading  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-2vy8y1-11642d3377044cb5bdac30cff897e656 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>(En anglais)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/opinion\/letters\/letter-we-should-be-waging-a-war-on-poverty-not-on-the-poor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8337 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-0129-gazette-letter-waging-a-war-on-poverty-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"2015-0129 gazette letter waging a war on poverty\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-0129-gazette-letter-waging-a-war-on-poverty-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-0129-gazette-letter-waging-a-war-on-poverty-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-0129-gazette-letter-waging-a-war-on-poverty-600x601.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-0129-gazette-letter-waging-a-war-on-poverty-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-0129-gazette-letter-waging-a-war-on-poverty-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-0129-gazette-letter-waging-a-war-on-poverty-705x705.jpg 705w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-0129-gazette-letter-waging-a-war-on-poverty-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-0129-gazette-letter-waging-a-war-on-poverty-450x451.jpg 450w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-0129-gazette-letter-waging-a-war-on-poverty.jpg 942w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Re: \u201cQuebec to make changes to welfare program\u201d (Montreal Gazette,\u00a0Jan. 29)<\/p>\n<p>One of the changes to the welfare system proposed by the Quebec government will make it harder for people on welfare to have roommates in order to split the rent. Given that the basic welfare cheque of $616 doesn\u2019t even cover the average rent of a 3 1\/2 in Montreal, the government is putting welfare recipients in an impossible situation: We won\u2019t allow you to have enough income to cover the rent alone, but if you try to band together, we\u2019ll call it income and cut your cheque.<\/p>\n<p>As for the indexation of welfare benefits, they went up by a whopping 1.06\u00a0per cent\u00a0this year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8338\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8338\" class=\"wp-image-8338\" src=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-0129-gazette-montreal-que-july-8-2010-project-genesis-members-protes.jpg\" alt=\"MONTREAL, QUE.: July 8, 2010--Project Genesis members protest outside their local MNA, Quebec Minister of Finance Raymond Bachand's office in Montreal Thursday July 8, 2010. (Allen McInnis \/ THE GAZETTE)\" width=\"495\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-0129-gazette-montreal-que-july-8-2010-project-genesis-members-protes.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-0129-gazette-montreal-que-july-8-2010-project-genesis-members-protes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-0129-gazette-montreal-que-july-8-2010-project-genesis-members-protes-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-0129-gazette-montreal-que-july-8-2010-project-genesis-members-protes-705x529.jpg 705w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-0129-gazette-montreal-que-july-8-2010-project-genesis-members-protes-450x338.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MONTREAL, QUE.: July 8, 2010&#8211;Project Genesis members protest outside their local MNA, Quebec Minister of Finance Raymond Bachand&rsquo;s office in Montreal Thursday July 8, 2010. (Allen McInnis \/ THE GAZETTE)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to Statistics Canada, in Quebec, the price of food in\u00a0stores went up 4.9 per cent this year. The hydro rate went up by 4.3 per cent as well.<\/p>\n<p>The poorest among us are falling further behind.\u00a0Government policies have\u00a0become less effective at redistributing wealth over the past 30 years. How much longer will the people of Quebec stand by while the government wages this irrational war on\u00a0the poor when we should be waging a war on poverty?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Cathy Inouye<\/strong>\u00a0(community organizer at Project Genesis), Montreal<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-0129-gazette-Letter-We-should-be-waging-a-war-on-poverty.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal Gazette \u2013 January 29, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[293,159,262],"class_list":["post-8345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dans-les-medias","tag-access-aide-sociale","tag-lutte-a-la-pauvrete","tag-montants-des-prestations-daide-sociale"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 06:55:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8345"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16819,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions\/16819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}