B.C. MP James Moore: ‘Is it my job to feed my neighbour’s child? I don’t think so'
Monday, December 16, 2013
Vancouver Sun
As first reported by Sara Norman of Vancouver radio station News1130, Industry Minister James Moore has offered his opinions on civic duty in light of increasingly damning reports regarding the state of child poverty in Canada.
"We've never been wealthier as a country than we are right now. Never been wealthier," the MP for the B.C. riding of Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam said. "Certainly, we want to make sure that kids go to school full-bellied, but is that always the government's job to be there to serve people their breakfast?
"Is it my job to feed my neighbour's child? I don't think so," he said.
FSC comment:
Clearly we have some different ideas about wealth. Unfortunately these statistics that Moore refers to do little to expose the growing gap between the haves and have-nots in Canada. So long as children go to school hungry in Canada, we cannot call ourselves a wealthy country. Canada desperately needs a concerted poverty elimination strategy.
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