Why Does Canada Have No Statistics on the Number of Poor

question 46

Multiple Choice

Why does Canada have no statistics on the number of poor people?

• A) because, relative to poverty in other nations, Canada has no "real" poor people
• B) because there are so few of them that it is not worth counting
• C) because it is too difficult to count the homeless
• D) because there is no official definition of poverty

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