Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you for joining us today.
May I point out that the only reason given by the government was imprisonment provision. The members on this side of the table are all in favour of doing away with the imprisonment provision. So then, this argument does not hold water. I'm not sure if you agree with me, but I think this is a case of creating a problem where one did not exist before. I am even more convinced of that on hearing your testimony this morning.
As my colleague said earlier, we conducted a study on poverty which we tabled last week. We often asked ourselves how best to gauge poverty. I would imagine that this would involve drawing comparisons every year between Canada and other countries and correlating data on the individuals targeted in our study.
More specifically with respect to this study, I want to know if will be possible to implement the proposed measures to deal with poverty if we do not have all of the data needed to evaluate our target population groups.