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Poor Canada For the fifth year in a row, our country Canada was labelled the best country in the world by the United Nations. Canada is worthy of this title and should be for many years to come, if its largest threat is controlled. In Canada the gap between the rich and the poor is a silent but irrationally growing threat on our prosperity. Every moment of every day the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The scariest part of this epidemic is who it effects. Everyone, especially the children! Now in Canada one in every five people live below the poverty line, most of which are buried far below and seeing very little golden light of the future. The poverty line doesn't allow Nike sneakers and Macdonald's every second Tuesday. Families that fall on the wrong side of the line can't provide skates for the dancing feet or piano lessons for the rhythmic fingers. These children are not given the chance to develop their gifted talents from God. In turn, they are left scarred. Sadly, skates and Nike sneakers are not the only things missing in the life of a child living poor. Sometimes finding nutritional food in the cupboard is just as far away. Necessities like a winter jacket, a book bag, and a warm blanket are hoped to be donated by a blind community. Some poverty-struck children suffer from lack of guidance. Parents have to work long hours just to make ends meet. Tired, they return home, too worn out to spend time with their children. The children that they are fighting this long endless battle for. Many child victims of poverty lose self confidence, since success usually requires guidance and money, like everything else in the world. These children find themselves alone and hopeless. Many grow into adults and find themselves still under the cruel poverty line. Poverty has little sympathy. It is only those who have an outstandingly strong soul and continuous faith that can overcome the poverty monster. In 1989, Canada proposed to end the hidden issue of poverty before the year 2000. Since then poverty in Canada has climbed a steep hill, finding thousands more victims with every step. We, the youth of Canada, need to take action and let Jean Cretien know that we are keeping the Canadian government to its word. Poverty is the only enemy that can destroy Canada. We must fight back with a quick and decisive plan. If we ignore the enemy, the gap between the rich and the poor widens and our country Canada falls apart.
 
tgmag@tgmag.ca
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