In December, while political leaders in Ottawa were trying to figure out who was going to form the government, Rebecca Harrison felt that there was more important work to do. The Whitby, Ontario resident felt that the deepening economic crisis was going to hurt those living in poverty.

"It didn't seem to me to be enough of an issue, with the media, with pollitiicans, or with the general public."  She was determined to do something about it.  Her motivation was simple. 

"It was seeing this economic strife coming, and knowing that the people on the bottom always suffer first.  So I just said that I would take things into my own hands and make this a news story, because in today's society you have to get in there and do that, for anyone to pick up on it", she said.

There is lots of help for those who don't need it and very little help for those who need it the most in this Federal Budget 2009. It was supposed to be an action plan to deal with the global economic crisis but even though it projects a large deficit, the poor way the budget is crafted means much of it will never get spent and much of what does get spent will not do much good.

The Ministry of Finance is asking Canadians to tell them what they think the budget priorities should be for 2008. But you won’t find fighting poverty on their list! So you will have to help put it there.