Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you all for coming here today. I think this is a very important issue. There are a lot of people who need help.
Part of the problem I have centres around a lot of the discussion I've heard already about definitions. For example, I heard Mr. Calderhead, I think, referring to “adequate social assistance” and “basic requirements” and “poor” and “poverty”, and yet I don't know what the definitions are for some of the terms I hear there.
I think Mr. Finnie was the only person I heard so far who used the term “responsible” in conjunction with the term “rights”, and I appreciate that. I think that any time we're talking about rights we should be also using the word “responsibilities” in conjunction with that.
Mr. deGroot-Maggetti, I noticed that you have a definition of poverty, a poverty line that you referred to throughout your document and through your talk. Really quickly, I'd like you to tell me what is the definition of poverty line, as you've used it. You're putting some statistics in there, so there must be a specific definition for poverty line. Could you please comment?