One of the reasons we do these hearings and why it's important for us to travel around the country--and we don't travel in Lear jets--is that it's part of our job to get out and see what is actually happening with people on the ground. It's a unique circumstance from place to place.
We've heard a lot today about the paltry support for people living on social assistance in New Brunswick. Somebody this morning mentioned $294 a month. He had compared that to 1974, when I think it was $254 a month, and then it was cut and then it was brought back some time ago. How does somebody live on that?