Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The following should be added to section 5 of the Poverty Reduction Strategy, under clause 315 of the bill, which deals with development and implementation.
The amendment is worded as follows:
The strategy must provide for the collecting of information that is necessary to measure its effectiveness based on the ethnic origin of the persons living in poverty.
In other words, the point is to specify that we must take this reality into account. We must not forget that poverty often affects people from visible minorities. A little more information is needed to see if this strategy is working for this population group in Canada.