Through the chair, thank you for that question.
There is no silver bullet and there is no one thing, but the Canada child benefit does make a substantial difference in the rates of child poverty.
I will quickly remind the committee that the first promise was made in 1989 to end child poverty by the year 2000, which is where Campaign 2000 gets its name from, and 30 years later, we still have more than 1.3 million children living in poverty. Once the Canada child benefit was implemented in 2015, we did see that rate significantly decrease. Our research is showing that it is plateauing and that the Canada child benefit is losing its power. Indexing it to inflation keeps the current effects at the same level. We need a significant increase of investment into that base amount. That will make a huge difference.
I did mention earlier tying transfers that go to provinces and territories to adequacy standards. If we can do that and make sure that social and disability assistance programs are advancing our human rights obligations, that is also going to make a substantial difference in child poverty and take us towards ending it for good.