A call for the federal government to double the Canada Child Benefit by 2020.
It comes from Mary Boyd, director of the MacKillop Centre for Social Justice, as a new national report suggests that nearly a quarter of all children in Charlottetown are living in poverty.
The report, released by the national anti-poverty coalition Campaign 2000, shows that 23.5 per cent of children living in Charlottetown are living in poverty.