Sure.
I think, based on the number of experts you've had before this committee, you've already figured out that in order to do something about poverty and to make a difference, we have to come at it from several sectors. As I mentioned in my remarks, it's not just about income. In the case of, for example, a senior who is living on their own, whether they have a high income or a low income, if they can't actually get out to access some of the social supports that are around them and are feeling isolated, then that will be a factor in terms of their mental health.
You're linking it to mental health, which I think is, again, a wise thing to do. You've heard the statistics on the connections between mental illness and poverty. We've talked a little bit about employment. In my remarks I talked about family violence. There are some connections to the justice system and to the educational system.
What we have found in our programming is that it's most effective when you can come at it from.... When I think about our maternal and child health programs, it's not just about the program in place for that child. When the teen mom brings her child into the centre, that mom is learning something about relationships, resiliency, and building very important social skills. Then that mom might go back home and talk to her extended family about that. It's when you can get at issues either in a school setting or a community setting so that it's not just the individual intervention that you're actually impacting the child, the parents, and then the broader community, including the school system, etc.