Thank you, Mr. Chair. Firstly, I wish to thank you for your understanding. I also want to thank my colleagues for their generosity.
I have two questions to ask. I will be brief, because I know that we have very little time left.
My first question refers to pages 8 and 11 of your summary on the incidence of low income. On page 8, you talk about the formation of the family, and how this is a significant factor. On page 11, you talk about the widening gap for unattached persons between 45 and 64 years of age. I suppose that women are much more affected than men. If this is the case, why did you not indicate it? That is my first question.
My second question is a bit longer and is a follow-up to the question asked previously by Ms. Cadman. It deals with recent immigrants. Recent immigrants frequently turn to settlement organizations, non-government organizations. In a time of economic weakness, one can suppose that these organizations and these NGOs, particularly settlement organizations, will be under a lot of economic pressure, and will have even fewer resources than they have ever had, since they rely almost entirely on subsidies from the municipal, provincial and federal governments.
Considering that the organizations themselves will be poorer, and yet their services will be in even greater demand, do you predict that the cohort of recent immigrants will be even more underprivileged than ever?