Well, pick a subject. I can rant on just about anything.
I think what you're seeing here is that we've all been at this for quite a while, and we all have ideas, but again, I would say, as Monica keeps mentioning, that there's the word “investment”. We have to get away from this line about how there's a social side and an economic side. No, no, no: it's a socio-economic spiral and they feed off each other. If you have some success in the economy, then your social issues are changed and move to another level, but then you can deal with those. It's all sort of like an iceberg. You keep digging down.
I really wasn't expecting to rant, so I don't know where to go with this. I think we need the federal guidance. We need the federal guidelines. We need the national policies that are going to say, “This is what Canada believes in, this is what Canada wants to do about poverty, this is how we should approach it, and this is how we view these people, because they are not writeoffs.” They are capable and strong, and if we give them the opportunities, we can make some progress. After we get to that point, we have to make sure these basic needs are addressed, but not as charity. We have to get away from the charity model because charity puts people down. It's only the giver who feels good in charity. We have to give opportunity, not charity. I guess that would be my last word.
