I would just echo those comments. In B.C., which is a province that of course is lagging with respect to adopting a poverty reduction strategy, we see that it's really more a matter of downloading the issues to municipalities. There are great, creative solutions coming out of, for example, Vancouver, but when we see really high and disproportionate rates of poverty in northern B.C., we're dealing with much smaller municipalities that simply don't have the resources to take on the same kinds of actions that a municipality like Vancouver has. So I would really echo the comments regarding the role of the federal government in really playing a leadership role both to set standards and to try to negotiate with—within, of course, the boundaries of federalism—some of the provinces that are less willing to take a proactive approach to these issues.
On November 1st, 2016. See this statement in context.