Thank you.
Very briefly, yes, in response to your comment about some of the tax exemptions and some of the measures that may help the working poor, certainly, as you've said, any small bit helps, and they're in the right direction. I think the council's preoccupation now is that while all of those small bits help, what is really going to be needed to meet the challenges of low-income people for the future is a much more comprehensive look so that those measures and others can be built together in a much more comprehensive system. I'm also encouraged that there is consultation going on between the federal and the provincial and territorial governments around some of these issues, because that, to us, is critical as well.
On raising the minimum wage, the interesting thing here is that we have found no evidence whatsoever to suggest that it's going to have these scary effects on jobs that people keep talking about. There is evidence in the United Kingdom, for example, that we really don't have much to worry about. They had absolutely no minimum wage. They have brought it in and have not seen the effects that people here seem to worry about. The council has looked at this kind of thing over the years and from different perspectives. There are different ways you can deal with the working poor, but it just seems fundamentally wrong to think about having a system where somebody can work full-time, a full year, and not meet the poverty level. That just does not make sense in a society that's trying to be productive and competitive anywhere.