Thank you, Mr. Chair.
About the targets, I would remind you of what I said earlier: the government may lack ambition. The following paragraph proposed in the bill concerns the targets adopted by the government.
I also mentioned earlier the goals pursued on the international scene. Sustainable development objectives were also mentioned several times.
In the list of goals, goal number one is no poverty. For me no poverty means zero, none, eliminating. I think if we want to stick to the United Nations sustainable development goals, we need to look at eliminating poverty.
That's why I'm proposing that in the bill, on the targets, it read "the Government of Canada aspires are, at a minimum,". That's the core of the amendment, the goal is a minimum of the two goals that are set in the bill, which is (a) 20% below the level of poverty in 2015 by 2020, and (b) 50% below the level of poverty in 2015 by 2030. The target is a minimum. We should make clear in the bill that this is the minimum target and we need to go further than that. I remind everyone that the sustainable development goal is no poverty. That's in line with what we adhere to internationally. It would clarify that we're not satisfied when we reach that point. We need to go lower than that, and it's a minimum that we should do.