As I said before, I think we pat ourselves on the back too much. Yes, there are some things we do well. Yes, seniors' poverty has come down, but child poverty rates are pretty much the same as they were in 1989 when the House of Commons, the MPs at that time, said they were going to end child poverty by the year 2000. The problem was there was nothing to back that up. There was no plan, there were no investments; it was simply a statement of good intentions. So we have to go well beyond that. We have to stop patting ourselves on the back and look at what we still need to do.
On September 29th, 2011. See this statement in context.