Translation of "poor line " (English → French) :

In line with the commitments of the Union at the 3rd and 4th High Level Fora on Aid Effectiveness (Accra 2008 and Busan 2011), and the recommendation of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (‘OECD-DAC’) on untying official development assistance (ODA) to the Least Developed Countries and Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, the Commission should untie Union aid to the maximum extent, including for innovative financing mechanisms, and promote the participation of entities from partner countries in c ...[+++]ontract-award procedures.

On freedom of expression, the high degree of polarisation of the media, often along political lines, hampers the development of objective reporting, places economic pressure on journalists and media owners (including through the opaque use of government advertising) and fosters poor professional standards.

(Return tabled) Question No. 422 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to nutrition in child and adolescent populations in Canada: (a) does government policy include recognition and acceptance of the principle that Canada’s children and adolescents are entitled to nutritious food (i) regardless of where they live, (ii) regardless of their family income, (iii) particularly when economic forces undermine efforts by parents and caregivers to ensure healthy eating; (b) given that the 1992 World Declaration on Nutrition, to which Canada was a signatory, states that access to nutritionally adequate and safe food is a right of each individual, what specific actions have the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Health Canada undertaken for ...[+++]children and adolescents in order to fulfill this commitment; (c) what percentage of children and adolescents in Canada is food insecure, (i) do disparities exist, including, but not limited to, disability status, ethnicity, gender, geography, socio-economic status, (ii) if so, specify; (d) what percentage of children and adolescents lives below the poverty line, (i) do disparities exist, including, but not limited to, disability status, ethnicity, gender, geography, socio-economic status, (ii) if so, specify; (e) what percentage of children and adolescents has, as a result of living below the poverty line, (i) poor nutritional status, (ii) poor health outcomes due to their poor nutritional status; (f) what percentage of members of each of the following groups is food insecure, (i) child and adolescent newcomers, (ii) children and adolescents who live in poverty, (iii) children and adolescents who live in priority neighbourhoods, (iv) Aboriginal children and adolescents; (g) what percentage of children and adolescents (i) involuntarily misses meals, (ii) lacks healthy variety in its diet; (h) does the government have information, and, if so, what is that information, concerning (i) how (g)(i) and (g)(ii) impact the caloric a ...

The last time, there were poor lines of communication between AECL, the CNSC, and the government, and significant delays in notifying the medical community as a result.

Sadly, one in five Canadian children lives below the poverty line which may lead to poor nutritional status and poor child health outcomes.

Honourable senators, consider, for example, that over 1.4 million Canadian children lived in poverty in 1995, that 631,000 Canadian seniors lived in poverty in 1995, that 25 per cent of Canada's working population is working poor, that 60 per cent of persons with disabilities live below the poverty line, that the poverty rate for single mothers in 1995 was 56.8 per cent, and that poor people living in urban areas must spend up to 80 per cent of their total income on housing alone.