The National Council of Welfare (NCW) is a citizens' advisory body to the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development on matters of concern to low-income Canadians.

Thank you to the thousands of individuals and hundreds of organizations who completed the questionnaire.

If you are interested in seeing a copy of the questionnaire, it is archived here - for individuals
or here - for organizations

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Messages endorsing the need for an anti-poverty strategy:

From the Canadian Association of Social Workers:
The information produced by the National Council of Welfare is invaluable and the CASW expects that the outcomes of the poverty and income-security questionnaire will be especially significant… [They] are essential if there is a real commitment in moving from an understanding of the prevalence and impacts of poverty to the solutions to poverty as seen by people living in Canada. The level of public participation will evidence the public’s commitment to ending poverty and provide essential information for the development of social policy at all levels of government. For the full statement

From National Chief Phil Fontaine, Assembly of First Nations:
“First Nations poverty is the greatest social justice issue in Canada today. It must be addressed now.”

Of the great number of grassroots, service, labour, corporate and other organizations that have contributed to making the questionnaire a success, many have agreed to be named, including: