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HOMES NOT BOMBS

Nov. 12, 1999
Transforming the War Dept. into the Housing Dept.

Homelessness in Canada has been declared a national disaster by city councils, big-city mayors, and thousands of individuals and organizations.

Canada is the only Western nation without a national housing policy. If Canada spent in one year on affordable housing and related support programs what it spends each year on war, homelessness could be virtually eliminated.

 

In 1996, Statistics Canada estimated it would take only $18.6 billion to bring every Canadian out of poverty, less than what the War Department spends in a two-year period. Yet given the choice of where to spend, Ottawa has made it clear&emdash;guns, not butter, bombs, not homes. For example, the federal government pays for the military enforcement of Iraqi starvation and the ongoing destructive war training over Innu lands off the backs of Canada's hungry and homeless.

 


 

 

 

 

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