Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Last year, I found out that it is in Alberta that there is the biggest number of people who work and who use food banks. It was a new thing for me. Yet, the province of Alberta has known the most constant, continuous and the strongest economic boom ever. This confirms what Mrs. Stanley Venne was saying.
I am deeply convinced that our report must give hope to poor people, about concrete things, about things which can be done in the short term. In each of your comments, I hear this expectation. I will use, as an example, the words of Mrs. Tellier, who is saying that the problem must receive immediate attention. It means we want to identify priorities. We must rank those measures by order of priority, because the government cannot do every thing at once — if he even wants to do something.
My question is for those who work on the front line and who brings us very tangible testimonies.
Today, if we were to tell the government that there is a priority that comes first in dealing with poverty, which would that be?
I would like to each of you to answer my question.