Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is claiming government initiatives have helped lift more than one million Canadians out of poverty since 2015. He says the government has made reducing poverty a core priority. Trudeau credits the Poverty Reduction Strategy, established in 2018, and the Canada Child Benefit introduced in 2016. He says Canadians are also seeing the effects of the increase to the Guaranteed Income Supplement for seniors and the middle class tax cut. The Prime Minister uses the Market Basket Measure to support his claim that poverty is dropping under his leadership. In an exclusive interview with CJWW news, Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Regina, Miguel Sanchez, discredited that measure as a flawed formula, made by governments for governments that doesn’t tell the true story as it was developed by Social Service Ministers.