Having a measurement and a baseline by which to judge ourselves was important. It wasn't that we didn't recognize the importance of it, but we recognized around the table, in discussion with the community, that it was going to take some time. People did not feel it was appropriate for us to wait until those discussions had occurred and those measurements and baselines had been established before we started on our reduction strategy. So we got at it and started the poverty reduction initiative, with the understanding that by the end of the second year we would try to have some of those measurement tools in place. We now have our own Newfoundland and Labrador market basket measure that we will use.
While the definition of poverty is important in referencing progress, I don't believe it is as important as being able to address the issue of poverty. The point we're trying to make is that we can talk and determine what poverty is, where people fit, and how we measure it until the cows come home, but we need to be doing something, because people are living in it today. Let's get started lifting people up out of poverty and reducing and alleviating the poverty that people find themselves in. The measurement tools, the measuring we need to do, and the baselines we need to establish will come as part of that process. We're two years into our strategy and we're now going back out to our community with some baselines and some measurement tools. But we've already had two years of progress that we initiated.