Current Event: Canada’s Child Poverty

A recent story in the Regina Leader Post summarized that child poverty in Canada is still a growing concern. The recent report by the Community Foundations of Canada indicated in the Vital Signs 2008 report it was documented that 1 in 5 children is living in poverty. This is a statistic that has remained relatively unchanged in the last 20 years. In a time when the Canadian economy is thriving and an upcoming federal election should this issue be considered a major issue? Are our politicians giving enough attention to this matter or are politicians only talking about child poverty and then doing nothing about it? What could possibly be done in Canada to reverse this trend?