Thank you, Madam Chair. If we are playing musical chairs here this morning, in the absence of Mr. Allison, it is to allow each of us to ask our questions.
Thank you for coming here this morning. The information you provided is very useful. I would like to start by discussing the situation of women. We know that certain groups are especially at risk of poverty. They are, of course, aboriginals, the disabled, immigrants, newcomers, unattached people, single-parent families and then women. Ms. Torjman mentioned them specifically.
Do we presently have a program that is specifically effective to deal with women's poverty? Now, we know that generally speaking, when women are poor, their children are poor also, as well as the rest of the family, obviously, but children are affected the most.