I'm sorry. It's the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. That's the committee that parties to the covenant report to with respect to their obligations in fulfilling their duties pursuant to the covenant.
Most recently, in 2006, during Canada's last reporting period, the committee was specifically critical of that point you raise with respect to the fact that Canada has no official poverty line. The committee once again recommended that Canada should establish one.
As you point out, it becomes very difficult for anyone to assess the adequacy of social assistance when you have nothing to assess it against. Currently, as I know you're aware, the National Council of Welfare publishes its welfare incomes report, and I know it always uses LICOs to measure the depth of poverty that people on social assistance are in; that's basically the distance between the low-income cut-off line and the level of social assistance that's offered.
So certainly there are organizations out there assessing the adequacy, but whether or not the federal government can do that is a bit of a mystery, because, as I said, they don't have an official poverty line. So in order to establish standards with respect to social transfers around social assistance, I think Canada's adoption of a national poverty line would be a first step in being able to determine the adequacy of social assistance as offered by the provinces.