There was a big debate in Ontario around this very issue when Ontario was putting together its poverty reduction strategy.
I'm not saying that Ontario is getting everything right. I think that there are some significant areas in which the Government of Ontario needs to make progress on poverty reduction and where, in fact, it has not met its own targets for poverty reduction, but I would say that one of the things that's very good about their strategy is that they take a multi-dimensional approach to the measurement of poverty. We know that poverty is about income, but it's also about.... Poverty is both a relative and objective kind of experience, so I think it's important to look at not only the relative measures of poverty, but also measures like, say, the market basket measure.
The Ontario government put some other measurements into place. They created a deprivation index, and I think it was the Daily Bread Food Bank that did the majority of the work on that. They worked with Statistics Canada to ask questions like “Have I been able to feed my children a meal of meat in a given week?” for example. There are a number of different measures.