My community of Etobicoke is a suburb of Toronto. We have.... You're smiling, so either that means you're very aware or you're not aware. Either way, I want to make sure folks at home understand. The cost of living in Toronto is very high as well. All this is to say that what you're saying makes a lot of sense.
You just spoke about the cost of child care. You spoke about a couple of other costs. I'll come back to what I said earlier when I asked questions the last time. I think that's where my colleagues and I are really focused. It's on how we can address what's causing those prices to go up, to the extent that the government can impact that. That's everything from the things that are causing inflation, like supply chains, to the war in Ukraine, which is causing food and energy prices to go up. There are those sorts of things and those root causes. However, we're also trying to provide people with support for those daily essentials.
I know we've talked a lot about the grocery rebate, because that's the recent thing, but I don't want to.... If you look back at all of the targeted assistance the government has provided over the past two years, not just during COVID but since, it's been designed for those who are the most vulnerable. It's not solving all the problems, and I'm not going to pretend it is, but that's been the focus. Let's take the resources we have and put them toward helping folks with the cost of living.
Child care, obviously, there's a major change happening there. There is dental care. Anyway, all this is to say that I want you to know, walking away, that I appreciate.... Obviously, we haven't solved all of these problems, and we have to do more, but we're really trying. We're trying to target those people who are most vulnerable.
