Liberals Made This Promise For 13 Years.....

.....and all they really did was shift more and more responsibility to the provinces without shifting the $$$$ which went to pay down the deficit so provinces had to increase tax burden on it's citizens.

Dion's green anti-poverty plan
Carol Goar

When Stéphane Dion announced last November that a Liberal government would cut poverty by 30 per cent – and child poverty by 50 per cent – within five years, his political opponents scoffed.