Thank you, Mr. Chair, and welcome everyone.
I'll start with the Canada Without Poverty folks, and then I have a question for the Centre for Policy Alternatives.
In our fight to eliminate and reduce inequality and to ensure that no Canadians and no Canadian children live in poverty, our government came out several weeks ago with a national poverty strategy, setting hard targets for the first time. This should be known and always viewed holistically. We have the Canada workers benefit, the Canada child benefit and the 10% increase to the guaranteed income supplement for the most vulnerable seniors and most of our single seniors who live in poverty. We have also made a middle-class tax cut that benefited nine million Canadians, among other things.
For the first time in history, a government is coming out and setting hard targets for reducing poverty. Isn't this a good thing? Can you please comment very briefly on that?