Thank you, Madam Chair.
I certainly appreciate your presentation and the passion with which you present it.
Mr. Howlett indicated earlier that really it's a question of how you apply funding in putting it to use for those who need it the most. It's always a question of how big your pot of funding is and then where you should apply that funding. I agree with Armine Yalnizyan that having a job is probably a good first step.
The government has done a number of things; for instance, the national child benefit, an investment of about $3.6 billion. The Canada child tax credit together with the national child benefit amounts to about $9.4 billion. I would take it that's a good investment of dollars. The government recently has increased the amount you can earn before the child tax benefit is cut off. Those are good steps. Would you agree with me?