Canada needs a plan to reduce poverty. Some provinces, including Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario, have poverty reduction plans in place. Other provinces including Nova Scotia and New Bruswick are beginning to develop a plan. Anti-poverty groups in other provinces have campaigns underway to press their governments to adopt a poverty reduction plan.

Make Poverty History is supporting efforts to get provincial and territorial governments to implement poverty reduction plans and is calling on the federal government to take the lead in developing a plan for all of Canada.

A poverty reduction plan that includes poverty reduction targets and a coordinated set of policies has been shown to deliver results in other countries and in Canadian provinces where they have been implemented.