Some perspectives look at poverty through the lens of income (e.g. If a household has an income less than half of the median income, they are living in poverty). Another perspective focuses on basic necessities (e.g. A family needs sufficient income to be able to afford a market basket of essential goods and services).

Jobs performed by workers in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) Stream for Low-wage Positions are permanent so the workers who do them should have the option to do them as permanent residents of Canada. Permanent Residency is good for migrant workers and for the overall Canadian economy.

The world is shaped by systems: eco-systems (e.g. Carolinian forest), economic systems (e.g. capitalism), political systems (e.g. parliamentary democracy), cultural systems (e.g. postmodern ways of looking at life), social systems (e.g. a city), religious systems (e.g. Roman Catholicism).