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					<description><![CDATA[An amount equal to 10% of the corporate tax giveaways announced by the Harper government in its last budget would have ended poverty among seniors in Canada, says the NDP Member of Parliament who has taken up the fight for seniors in the House of Commons. Irene Mathyssen, MP for London, said a $1.2-billion increase in funding would have raised the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) to the level that would have lifted all seniors above the poverty level. Speaking at CURC’s convention, she said New Democrats proposed the measure in an Opposition Day, where the official opposition sets the subject...]]></description>
		
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