On Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast, roughly one in four children are living in poverty.
Campaign 2000, a national anti-poverty group has broken down the child poverty rates in each of the federal ridings.
For the West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky constituency, there are 3,400 children living in poverty. That’s a rate of 17 point 5 per cent.
That compares to Nanaimo where 4,610 children or 22 per cent are living in poverty and Courtenay-Alberni where the poverty rate for children is just about 24 per cent.
In the Cowichan Valley it’s 20 per cent and in Victoria, the poverty rate for children aged up to 17, is around 19 per cent.
Across the country, the riding with the highest poverty rate was Churchill, Manitoba, where the rate was 64 per cent.
The lowest poverty rates for children, of between 4 and 6 per cent, were scattered throughout Quebec.
