Poverty in Canada (2nd Edition)

IN WRITING ANYTHING LONGER THAN a shopping list, one is bound to incur debts of gratitude. I am delighted to acknowledge the efforts of a number of people who have been generous with their time and expertise. I wish to begin by thanking a variety of technical officials with Statistics Canada, C.M.H.C. and several provincial social service agencies who were particularly helpful in providing information, formally and informally, used in this study. Nipissing University reference librarian Cathy Straughan was also generous and active in assisting me. I greatly appreciate the efforts of typists Bonny Vossos, Una Keeping, Lee Patterson and especially Denise Gauthier and Marsha Bedard for their high quality work and pleasant demeanor. I am indebted to friend and colleague Boguslaw Schreyer whose custom program permitted easy calculation of income distributions and poverty incidence.

In addition to these individuals, I wish to thank Nipissing University for modest but timely grants used primarily for the acquisition of data. I am also grateful to The Fraser Institute for acquiring and permitting me to use Statistics Canada's microdata file of economic families (1988).

Finally, and most importantly, I am pleased to acknowledge the contribution of my family. I wish to thank my parents, Edward and Lillian Sarlo, whose lives and accomplishments provided some of the inspiration for this book, and most of all, my wife Julie, whose support, patience, understanding and perceptive comments were all of enormous importance to me.