I'd like to add one to your list, Mr. Martin, but also just confirm that when you talk about income security being one of the three key ones, I would say that it has two components to it that have to be kept distinct because they both matter. The one is to make sure there's well-designed public funding to make up for shortages of income for those people who need it—a good EI program, for example, and a richer child tax benefit and things like that. The other is measures that make sure that people start earning more money for the work they do because there are way too many people who don't earn very much. In Alberta one quarter of working people earn less than $15 an hour, which is kind of a living wage. So I just want to make sure that income security doesn't blur the two different areas.
The other that I'd like to suggest needs to be added, though, is critical to this list. It's the issue of assisting people to gain assets, because having assets of your own in the long run as a counter to falling into poverty has a huge value, even maybe beyond your income at any given time. In my experience, particularly in the immigrant world in this country, that's a critical issue. When you have no assets, you can never start to move out. If all your income always has to go for rent and you're not building up anything that's yours, you can't get out of the well. This issue of asset creation for people is another key component.