My concern is.... Normally we say that consultation is a great thing. However, when we're determining what should be an objective measurement, a mathematical measurement of a poverty line, I would think that human subjectivity would not be a helpful thing. It would be, you know.... The other measures of poverty have been very mathematical, such as the LIM. It's very simple: median income divided by two. If you're income is below that, you're considered low income. For the LICO, we take the share of income that the average Canadian spends on the basic necessities of life, and anybody who spends 20% or above that amount on the basic necessities today is considered to be below the low-income cut-off line. It's mathematics.
