Thank you very much and thank you for being here today.
Ms. Ross, you talked a lot about non-profit organizations and local initiatives which are very important to reduce poverty. In what ways could the federal government help these non-profit organizations who work on the front lines? I come from Quebec. You may already know that in Quebec there is a parent act respecting antipoverty.
I really have two questions. This parent act represented an exceptional mobilization of the civil society; it was a partnership. I have a question about the help the federal government can give to non-profit organizations but also on the issue of your antipoverty strategy. Have you been involved, as a local partner, with this strategy? Were you contacted? Do you wish to be involved to define, as you were saying, more precise targets? Has the civil society been involved from the start in the drafting of this strategy?