Thank you very much.
Thanks to all of you for the tremendous work you do and for being here this morning. You certainly have very valuable information for all of us to consider as we try to put together a proposal for the federal government that will get them into the poverty strategy game again.
A couple of you mentioned the issue of political will and the need for political will if this is going to happen. Armine makes a great plea for immediate action. We all know that there needs to be immediate action plus a long-term plan that will take us out of this recession and forward with some confidence that nobody will be left behind.
How do we marshal the political forces? We're going out now as a committee over the next couple of months to eastern Canada and a couple of big cities--Montreal and Toronto--to hear from people about poverty. Now we may come in and come out under the radar. Who knows? Dealing with an issue, as Armine has said, that is so front of mind for so many people.... Even those who still have jobs are looking over their shoulders wondering what if and what's there if they don't.
How do we mobilize the political forces in the very near future to get behind an effort by our committee and the government, ultimately, to make the changes required?