Thank you very much.
Thank you to all of you for coming and giving us this information. We want to determine through the study how the federal government can play a role in developing an anti-poverty strategy for Canada. It seems to me that there are two key things in determining what role the government can have in assisting people living in poverty. One is, what are we directly spending to assist those people? The other is also negative in that the question is, w hat is the ability of the federal government to assist those who live in poverty? What I mean is the fiscal spending ability of the federal government. When we, for example, reduced the GST by two points, we reduced the fiscal capacity of the federal government to spend on those who need it the most.
Is that a fair statement?