April 16, 2020
BC Human Rights Clinic
Canada-wide
Laura Track
Poverty kills: Why it’s time to add “social condition” to BC’s human rights law
Poverty kills.
This grisly fact has been true for much longer than COVID-19 has been around. Statistics Canada concluded in 2014 that income inequality is associated with the premature deaths of 40,000 Canadians a year. That’s equal to 110 Canadians dying prematurely each day. Imagine if that was the statistic being broadcast via government briefings every afternoon.