Combatting Poverty in Quebec

Community organizations in Brome-Missisquoi bring community together around the fight against poverty in Quebec

Action Plus Brome-Missisquoi and the Corporation de développement communautaire de Brome-Missisquoi (CDCBM) came together for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on Oct. 17 to workshop Quebec’s 4th action plan to combat poverty and social exclusion and its current social assistance reform Law 71. Photo: by Taylor McClure. 

By Taylor McClure
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Published on 21/10/14 - Played on 21/10/14

In the context of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on Oct. 17, community organizations Action Plus Brome-Missisquoi and the Corporation de développement communautaire de Brome-Missisquoi (CDCBM) brought the community together to raise awareness around the Quebec government’s 4th action plan to combat poverty and social exclusion and Law 71, its current social assistance reform. 

Action Plus Brome-Missisquoi and CDCBM hosted a workshop event on Thursday to break down the 2024-2029 4th action plan to combat poverty, presented by the government in June 2024, and Law 71 “knowing very well that people haven’t had the time to grasp” what the legislation means, said Fiona Brilvicas from Action Plus Brome-Missisquoi. 

With more people facing social distress in Brome-Missisquoi and across the province, Brilvicas emphasized that Quebec needs a plan that structurally addresses the social issues that lead people to poverty and that will really help put money back in people’s pockets when they are facing a vulnerable situation, but “that’s not what we are seeing right now.”

CIDI was invited to the workshop event where we spoke with Brilvicas and Nicolas Gauthier from the CDCBM to learn more about the new legislation and some of their existing concerns around how the government is combatting poverty in Quebec.