Get Canada: A Land Of Missed Opportunity For Addressing The Social ...

Toronto's unique social environment creates both opportunities and challenges, particularly around issues that include homelessness, food insecurity, access to healthcare, social inclusion, and violence.

Social exclusion refers to the inabil- ity of certain groups or individuals to participate fully in Canadian life. due to structural inequalities in access to social, economic, political, and. cultural resources.

Reduces productivity and economic output by about 1.3 percent of GDP. Raises the costs of crime by 1.3 percent of GDP. Raises health expenditures and reduces the value of health by 1.2 percent of GDP.

Around the country, factors such as lack of employment and affordable housing – combined with the expense of higher education and training programs – can affect many families. Some families in Canada are refugees, struggling to overcome language barriers to employment.

Poverty in Canada ing to the data, 1 in 9 people in Canada live in poverty. Some groups have disproportionately high levels of poverty, including, unattached individuals, persons with disabilities, children, recent immigrants, persons in sole-caregiver families and First Nations People living on a reserve.

Poverty costs Canada as a whole between $72 billion and $84 billion annually. Low-income families are not only more vulnerable to poor health than those earning a living wage, they also use more healthcare resources because illness can make it harder to get out of poverty.

These include incarceration, poverty, unemployment, suicide, addiction, and health issues. The rights of indigenous people and the desires of the industries such as oil are often in stark conflict. Many of these problems are rooted in racism and discrimination owing to current high levels of poverty.

Highlights. Based on data from the 2021 Census of Population, the poverty rate in Canada was 8.1% in 2020, down from 14.5% in 2015. Poverty declined among all ages, but especially so for children.