Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Skinner, it's great to see you moving so quickly, along with your colleagues, on what is clearly becoming a more important issue every day. This of course applies to the provinces, but also at the federal level, where we're doing a study on poverty. Our hope is to pull all of it in line so that my province of Ontario and your province and others can take a serious look at what we can do to alleviate poverty.
I'm pleased that you're here and speaking to us today. I certainly wish you a lot of success.
The fact that you're action oriented fits in with what we are looking at here in Ottawa. We are investigating solutions to problems rather than continually rehashing what didn't work. It's great to hear your comments. Your comprehensive approach is the only way, many of us believe, to get concrete results.
You talked about community partnership with businesses. What about your local communities, your small communities, your city of St. John's? Are you working with them as well in trying to find solutions?