May I add one thing about the low-income gap? When we get an estimate of the aggregate low-income gap in Canada, I would exercise a bit of caution in equating that with the cost of eliminating low income in Canada. It's just an approximation of the overall distance, on average, between low-income people and that low-income line. So it would be very hard to just “fill that gap” and eliminate low income.
On April 10th, 2008. See this statement in context.