I'd like to thank you, Mr. Chair, and the witnesses who have appeared.
I'm glad, Mr. Rainer, that you mentioned that there are even politicians who fall into poverty. It reminds me of a member of Parliament from my own riding, Mr. Louis-René Beaudoin, whose portrait hangs out in the hall next to us. He was also a Speaker of the House. He unfortunately died virtually penniless in the back of a Montreal taxi cab in 1970. So no one's immune to poverty.
I would like to look specifically here at poverty and the role of poverty in child sexual abuse. I'm sure you'll agree with me that poverty is one of the factors in child abuse, physical and sexual. Given that 85% of perpetrators are someone the child knows, such as a father or a step-father, do you believe that a crime bill compensating victims would have any effect on eradicating the cycle of abuse, given that both the perpetrator and the victim will likely be living in poverty?