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2010-2015 Government Action Plan for Solidarity and Social Inclusion
Home > 2010-2015 Government Action Plan for Solidarity and Social Inclusion
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Overview of the action plan
Nearly $7 billion over five years
Four thrusts
1. Strengthen solidarity by making regional and local communities key players in the decision-making process.
- Increase funding for regional priorities through the Fonds québécois d’initiatives sociales.
- Coordinate, plan and implement regional anti-poverty action plans (regional solidarity alliances).
- Work closely with players from the community, benevolent, economic, union and social sector.
- Rally all of society to the cause of solidarity: A mission of the new Groupe des partenaires pour la solidarité (GPS) to make action more effective.
- Establish a Solidarity Week so that all Québeckers contribute to the social inclusion of individuals in situations of poverty.
2. Acknowledge the value of work and foster the self-sufficiency of individuals.
- Make work a more attractive option by maintaining the Work Premium, the Supplement to the Work Premium and the Adapted Work Premium.
- Gear the increase in the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) to single individuals and childless couples.
- Conduct an annual review of minimum wage by taking its effects on poverty into consideration.
- Continue the Commitment for Employment’s labour market integration investments.
- Better serve new immigrants in order to foster their socioeconomic integration.
3. Support the income of disadvantaged individuals.
- Continue assistance to underprivileged families, notably by maintaining Child Assistance.
- Automatically index last-resort financial assistance benefits.
- Introduce a solidarity tax credit to cushion the impact of public user fee increases and tax hikes.
- In calculating last-resort financial assistance benefits, exempt the first $100 of child support payments per month per child and harmonize student financial assistance accordingly.
4. Improve the living conditions of low-income individuals and families.
- Build 3,000 new social housing units, bringing the goal to 30,000.
- Establish initiatives for Aboriginal people in terms of employment, housing, transportation and social inclusion.
- Foster the social inclusion of homeless individuals through regional and local action and by deploying the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux’s Plan d’action interministériel en itinérance 2010-2013 (2010-2013 interdepartmental action plan against homelessness).
- Better support initiatives aimed at respect for seniors and improve the slate of services for natural caregivers.
- Work to implement structured support services for persons with disabilities and for their families.
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