Yves Lessard at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

I am fascinated by your approach, Mr. Smith. As a parliamentarian, you have found it necessary to create this new Center for Social Justice and I understand that the role of this think-tank is to provide the government with the benefit of its thinking.

I may be mistaken but is that not a de facto recognition that the power of legislators to do anything to reduce poverty really is limited?