Opinion: Quebec government should attack poverty, not the poor

The Quebec government has been obsessed with what clothes people should be allowed to wear instead of trying to fix that which is broken in our society. In our province, one in every seven people live in poverty, including 223,000 children. At the same time, the government has stubbornly refused to raise the minimum wage to a living wage and the welfare rate has stagnated while rents and food prices keep on increasing.
The welfare system regularly punishes recipients. The first great injustice i