I think there is no way out of it. If you want to make an impact on the extraordinary health disadvantage that is faced by low-income families, you have to tackle the adequacy of their incomes. I think other kinds of programs--tax credits that are targeted or labelled, targeted interventions--are simply a waste of taxpayers' dollars. We need to be targeting the problem, and the problem is inadequate income.
Those people can be identified easily. Every time there's another national survey, we find the same thing. It's not hard to pick these people out of the pot.
There are ways for the federal government to have an impact on family-level income through income redistribution. The national child tax supplement was an attempt at that. It didn't work, because the federal government enabled provinces to claw back that money, but—