Yes. Thank you, Mr. Martin.
Child poverty is something that teachers have seen in front of them forever. I'm glad you pointed out that it's something that is not talked about, because that's what we've identified. There isn't the political will in territorial or provincial governments, or the federal government. That's why we're pushing this; that's what we'd like to see. We'd like to see the governments working together on this, because we recognize that it can't be fixed, perhaps, by one province or one small jurisdiction. There really needs to be a concerted effort on that.
As part of that national strategy, the reduction of poverty, we'd like to see early intervention programs, education for parents, and high-quality day care and early education programs for children.
When we talk about feeding children breakfast, that's a wonderful thing to do and I'm not going to take away from that, but it is a band-aid solution. That's not battling poverty, that's keeping their tummies full for the day so that they can stay in school and learn for that particular day. But it's much, much grander than that. We need to change the political will at all levels of government.