The data does show that for most people who experience poverty, it tends to be a portion of their lives, not for their entire lives, although certainly there are those who sadly spend their entire lives from cradle to grave never escaping the conditions. So I think what that really points to...I'll just back up. We also know that the pathways into poverty are many.
Again we heard from Jeff Turnbull yesterday that among the people he treats right here in this community are two former professors who are homeless. How did two former university professors end up on the street? And we know that doctors end up on the streets, we know there are professionals, there can be politicians who end up on the streets. It points to the fact that we have not created a social security system that is there to catch people if they actually are falling. There are so many triggers.
Harriett and I met a woman in Montreal at a workshop we put on. She used to have two Mercedes in her driveway. She didn't go into the reasons for why she ended up on welfare in Montreal, but it happened to her. It can happen through divorce, it can happen through injury, it can happen through mental health problems, depression, etc. So we have to construct a better safety net than what we have to date, and I think we have the tools to do that.