JAMIE SWIFT
Bootstraps Need Boots: One Tory’s Lonely Fight to End Poverty in Canada, by Hugh Segal (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019) 197 pp, $32.95. Hugh Segal. (Postmedia File Photo) What happens when we are young shapes us for life.
That seems obvious, but it’s worth keeping in mind. Particularly when it comes to pondering the stubborn persistence of poverty in one of the world’s richest countries.Prominent Kingstonian Hugh Segal — former senator, longtime professor, lifetime politico — was born in Montreal in 1950, an “edge-of-poverty working class kid.”One frigid winter day in the 1950s, his oft-unemployed cab driver dad […]
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