Yes, I will.
First of all, on my results, I got about the same results whether I used the LICO or the LIM, which is the half median income adjusted for family size. And then I fix it over time. Again, on that basic result, about half of it is transitory, and half of it is long-term. That is only, I might say, because of some interesting data sets that Statistics Canada has put together that are able to contribute to our understanding of this. It's very important, because you would have very different policy measures if, say, you thought that most of the poor dipped into poverty for a year and then moved out a year or two later.
What you would want to do there is put most of your eggs in the income support basket, to the degree you wanted to do it; that is to say, they're poor for a year, but they're going to move out, so you just top up their income to the degree that you think is appropriate, and they'll get along in life themselves. If there are more long-term poor, that means there's a need for greater intervention to help those people get a foot back into the labour market, ideally. You say you can't do anything about it; then you need a long-term income support plan. Identifying those two different kinds of poor is integral to identifying the kinds of programs and the policy initiatives that you should then bring to bear.
