I would just add two things to that.
One, I think the advantage of composite measure is that it allows for differentiation across the country and allows you to take into account the diversity, whether in Quebec or elsewhere. Two, I would say that all poverty measures are ultimately relative. They're always going to be debated, and that debate won't go away.
The advantage of composite measure is that you take into account more things, therefore you take into account more people's perceptions and attitudes. I think that has been the gain in those countries that have moved in that direction. It isn't so much that they have significantly come down and that poverty levels are vastly different. In our study--and you have the report--we compared several countries with Canada in terms of the income transfers and the income levels that were acceptable under LICO and other types of measures. They vary quite a bit across countries, but you can also get some commonalities.
On the deprivation measures that Katherine referred to, the research was done particularly in England on this. One type of measure tended to reflect certain kinds of differences, but there were also some commonalities with the income measures.
So we're not talking about things that will be widely disparate. We are talking about diversity in order to enhance a better understanding of poverty among the Canadian public, as well as among politicians and others who have to implement some measures to address those questions.