First I want to expand on what my colleague Jason Clemens said. Just to put in perspective the percentage of people who fall into those groups and who are there persistently in poverty or low income, StatsCan research suggests that it's anywhere between 1.5% to 3% of the population. There's a very small subset of the Canadian population in low income for a long period of time.
When we're discussing these issues of income inequality, my concern is that we're devising policies for everybody, or a broad part of the population, people who may be temporarily there in low income, like university students, but the people who really need the help are those who are there for a longer period of time.