I'm not disputing the cause, because I agree with you, eight weeks is not enough. That's not what I'm disputing. It's just the mechanism on how we can deliver the service so it doesn't go into the hands of the bureaucracy but into the hands of people who need it. So if you can provide us with some details, I'd love to see them, and maybe we can recommend them.
Ms. Donnelly, we all visit schools. I visit schools regularly in my riding, and the biggest shame, especially in an urban riding, is that the teachers complain all the time that kids go to school hungry. Now there are a lot of programs trying to feed the kids. It's a huge problem. Anybody who's visited an urban school knows that there's a problem. I don't think there's any teacher I have spoken to who doesn't say that they actually take money out of their own pocket to provide kids with some type of food.
How do we fix that? I know you say in your statement that we should probably increase the amount of child tax allowances and other kinds of moneys, but the problem that I'm seeing is that the parents don't provide. They may have the money, but they use it for their own purposes and don't provide adequate care for those children going to school. That's what I've seen.