Thank you very much for a lot of the insight that you've provided in terms of the plan you've developed. I know many of us around this table were extremely interested to hear from you. You have a great reputation here in Canada for all the work you've done, as individuals and as a nation, to combat poverty.
I have a couple of questions.
First, in reading some of your information in regard to your strategic plan, originally when you set out, I believe you had a goal of reducing poverty, to 9% to 15% in 1977 and 5% to 10% in 2007. Then you went on to revise that to reducing poverty to 2% to 4% in 2012 and eliminating it by 2016. Could you perhaps discuss with the committee what led to that transition or those changes in targets?
I know one of the changes you spoke about was the shift in lone-parent families, where lone parents, especially females, were initially staying at home, and then there was that transition made into the workforce.
What were some of the other factors that led to that change in target, and how did that evolve?