As I mentioned before, our focus is on older Canadians, but the importance of any government taking a role is not only to provide coordination, funding, direction, and so on that would be necessary for a successful event, but also their rhetoric is enough to set a new code of values as to what is important in our society, what are the political choices they are making, and for Canadians to be able to judge what kinds of values the country stands for. When you have a written statement that says we reject looking after poverty, regardless of what the excuses are, I think that is a cause for concern.
On June 9th, 2009. See this statement in context.