Recent immigrants, with whom you are concerned, are a part of a category of new labour market entrants, which include young men and women as well. We know that in the last 10 to 15 years, when you look at labour market trends, wage rates and also the permanence of jobs have declined for new labour market entrants. That goes to Dr. Courtneidge's point about pre-distribution, or at least distribution of incomes that start primarily from how you can make your own living.
Given that this recession is creating a huge amount of downward pressure on wages, loss of benefits, loss of security of work, working hours, we know that we have created more jobs in the last ten years before the recession than any other country in the G-7, but in about 59% of them the growth in precarious jobs was precipitous. That means you have no bargaining power. You cannot command your wage rate. You cannot command your benefits. If you want to get rid of poverty, you have to deal with those labour market conditions, which affect immigrants as well as others.
Madam Chair, I wonder if you would permit me to say one thing to--