Very well.
Would you agree that it is, first and foremost, necessary to establish clear targets, mechanisms, and indicators in the effort to reduce poverty? Earlier, you said there was no definition. The department hasn't even established a definition of poverty. Should we not establish mechanisms that are much clearer?
Everyone knows that, in 1989, the House of Commons unanimously pledged to eliminate child poverty by the year 2000. Now, here we are, 16 years later, and the figures clearly show that children continue to live in poverty in Canada, and that is the case for far too many of them.