Finance committee  We wouldn't be strongly in favour of clawbacks. Our practical experience here in Nova Scotia is where the question is whether the child tax benefit is clawed back or not. It's not helpful to people who are living in poverty to have clawbacks, no.

Finance committee  Yes, we would encourage people to be able to earn some money, because after all, this is the way they're going to be able to work themselves out of the poverty situation. The clawback should be one they can work with. Nobody wants to work and then have everything they've earned c

Finance committee  Well, I would think they're not wise. Recently I attended a session speaking about the cutbacks in literacy, and people had concerns that their chances to improve their situations would be severely limited with changes to funding for literacy and numeracy. People give good-news

Finance committee  I really can't answer that question. I don't know. I've heard people say it would appear in the short term that it does, but when we think that for most people who live on low incomes all their money is spent more or less immediately on consumer goods, that certainly is a facto

Finance committee  We'll have to look into it.

Finance committee  Thank you. I appreciate this opportunity to put forward some of our ideas. The Face of Poverty Consultation is a group of representatives from various communities in the Halifax regional municipality who have been working together for some four years doing advocacy and educatio