Thank you, Chair.
I want to thank you very much for coming today. Those were very compelling and thought-provoking presentations.
I come from neighbouring Nova Scotia, and I know a couple of you mentioned that you have had experience in Nova Scotia.
Monsieur Richard, you have a unique perspective to offer, it seems to me. We're active politicians, or reasonably active politicians. You've been a politician; I think you've been a municipal councillor, a provincial MLA, a cabinet minister, and a leader of a provincial party. Now you're advocating for some of these issues that we're trying to get to the bottom of.
Can you give us any advice on how to deal with our colleagues in the House of Commons in being serious about tackling poverty? It's not that most of them, I don't think, don't really want to get at it, but I don't know if some of them would prioritize it the way that you're talking about.
Do you have any advice for us in that regard?