Tony Martin at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

Thank you very much.

Thanks for being here today. We're certainly getting an education this afternoon.

I really appreciated your comment, Patricia, that it is who we are. Somewhere along the line we seem to have forgotten who we are. I remember the late nineties and I remember the 21.6%. I was in the provincial legislature at the time. I was shocked. I remember Kimberly Rogers. How that could happen in this country is unbelievable.

How do we get back to who we are? You've suggested that we go back to the whole issue of human rights and the covenants we've signed onto internationally and that we try to live up to those. Some have suggested that we need a new piece of legislation—a poverty act. Would that help in any way?