I need more than a minute and a half.
First, welcome, Minister. It's great that you're here, and I certainly applaud you personally and your department—certainly, Dan, Josée, Mathieu, Ariel, and Terry—for the work that you're doing to help Canadians in need.
One of the things I constantly see—and we talked about this at our last committee meeting—is poverty study after poverty study throughout Canada. They are on shelves everywhere, and we can always pull them out and read them, yet I find it frustrating to see the lack of innovation with respect to poverty reduction.
If you want to compare poverty to, say, the environment, you can look at how far we have come, despite what some members opposite might say, in thinking about carbon and greenhouse gases and things like that. There has been a lot of innovation with respect to things like that. But if you look at the poverty side, there really hasn't been a lot of new thinking.
I'd like to get your comments on how important innovation is for poverty reduction and what incentives the government could potentially give to groups and organizations that are innovative in reducing poverty.
Thank you.