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Richard Blickstead and Michael Shapcott

Federal Government Can Take Action On Health Challenges: Housing, Community Innovation And Equity

The Wellesley Institute 2011 Federal Pre-budget Submission offers two major recommendations to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance as it starts consultations for the 2011 federal budget. First, a down payment on a 10-year national housing plan as set out in detail in the Wellesley Institute’s Precarious Housing in Canada report (the federal government is set to make drastic cuts in affordable housing investments, and our recommendation calls for $1 billion in the coming year – which would maintain federal housing investments at the same level as 2009). Second, a $350 million investment in a national social innovation and equity strategy.

Federal Government Can Take Action On Health Challenges: Housing, Community Innovation And Equity

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.