Campaign Platforms: Advocacy Group

Provincial Election Dept: In a report card being released Wednesday, the Colour of Poverty, a coalition of 25 community groups, rated all three major parties campaign platforms on issues most affecting minority communities, according to The Star. None of them addresses the real sources of systemic problems that frame the lives of racialized and immigrant groups in this province, said the report, designed to guide voters of the Oct. 6 provincial election and ontario voters looking for a political party committed to racial equality will be disappointed, according to an election primer prepared by an anti-poverty advocacy group. While the Conservatives are given a D, the Liberals got a C+ and New Democrats ended up with a C. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.