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The paper discusses how many people in Canadian society are rather uncomfortable talking about poverty, perhaps because we Canadians, despite all our lofty rhetoric, have done a poor job of providing for the less fortunate despite many opportunities to do so. With this in mind, the writer of this paper looks at how the views he formerly held on poverty changed profoundly after reading the initial four chapters of Dennis Raphael's text, "Poverty and Policy in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life". Specifically, the writer answers seven questions that explore his own images of poverty in Canada and their maturation, his perceptions of social exclusion as a pernicious aspect of poverty, his present-day understanding of what constitutes appropriate poverty measures for a nation like Canada, his awareness of the pervasiveness of poverty and its threat to so many within this land, his new-found comprehension of why some groups are wretchedly poor in a dominion that is among the wealthiest states in the world, and his own experiences with people grappling with poverty and how the findings of Raphael's text corroborate patterns and trends he saw before but never took the time to absorb into his being. What the writer believes the paper will uncover is that most people see poverty as something that happens elsewhere in the world, does not impact most of the people they know, is a product of poor work habits and "sloth" rather than poor social policy, and is a matter our nation's policy-makers are diligently seeking to overcome. The writer highlights how in truth, most Canadians are completely wrong on many things that have to do with an issue we should all be taking very seriously.

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"Many people in Canadian society are rather uncomfortable talking about poverty, perhaps because we Canadians, despite all our lofty rhetoric, have done a poor job of providing for the less fortunate despite many opportunities to do so. With this in mind, the following paper will look at how the views I formerly held on poverty changed profoundly after reading the initial four chapters of Dennis Raphael's text, Poverty and Policy in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life. Specifically, I will answer seven questions that explore my own images of..."

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