Dr. Notten, you spoke about the difference between income-based measurements of low income and outcome-based measurements with outcome measurements relying more on the needs that a person has to avoid material deprivation whereas income is merely a measurement of what they have coming into their bank account.
We were briefed on three different measurements by Stats Canada at the last meeting. One is the low-income measure; the second is the low-income cut-off, and the third is the market basket measure. It seems to me that of the three, two of them measure in varying degrees, and with arguable success, the needs that a person has. Those two are the market basket measure and LICO. LICO is anchored to 1992 levels of consumption, but it still does measure the number of people who spend 20% or more of their greater income on basic necessities of life than the average.
The low-income measure, however, would seem to be the only one that has no relationship whatsoever to the cost of purchasing the basic necessities of life to avoid material deprivation. I'm not an expert on any of these measures. Is it true to say that the low-income measure is the only one of the three that bears no relationship to the needs a person has to avoid material deprivation?