The federal agency — which is tasked
with updating the poverty line, known as the market basket measure (MBM)
— released a series of reports in November and December detailing its
initial proposals for how the measure should be tweaked.

Experts have also said revising the
poverty line, which assesses five categories of costs for Canadian
households in 50 regions in the provinces that reflect a “modest, basic
standard of living,” could mean a bump in the poverty rate.