Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, senators, for your research, but five minutes is not much time. We need hours to discuss this topic.
I have been a member for only around a year and a half. All the years prior to that, I was out in the field, working with the people you are talking about, low-income families and especially women. Your report does not seem to focus very much on women as one of the overrepresented groups you mentioned. I would have liked for your report to focus a lot more on these women. I am talking about those women and mothers who are often single parents.
You are right, we should not just look to the mistakes of the past. But I always learned that you should learn from your mistakes so you do not repeat them. Since I have been here and we have been studying the issue of poverty, what I see, and you frequently pointed it out, Mr. Segal, is that, in Quebec, we established framework legislation in 2002. I see that Ontario is also on the verge of creating antipoverty legislation. That is the case in Newfoundland, as well. You mentioned examples in Toronto. I think that where Canada has failed in eliminating child poverty, Quebec and certain other provinces are succeeding.
I want us to succeed in solving the poverty problem. When you look at where things stand, do you not think that the best solution would be to increase transfer payments to Quebec and the other provinces?
That is my main question.