Thanks for coming to the committee today. We finally got here last night at about 1:30 in the morning, but we're here.
The one thing I would like to bring up is that the study is called the “poverty reduction strategy”. It isn't talking about the poverty mitigation strategy. It isn't talking about the poverty continuation strategy. It's about the reduction strategy.
Wendy, I think you're on to something, because you said that a lot of cheques have been written, but still, here we are. I think Erin also said something about that, which is that we're still treading water with this poverty thing, if you want to call it that. I don't think that's giving it the weight it deserves, but there it is.
What I'm concerned about is how we reduce it. Reducing poverty looks at a bunch of different factors. For me, it's looking at family structure and whether there is a job in the family. How do we actually bring the poverty down and how do we change that?
Wendy, I'll ask you specifically, because you're on to this. I think you said that you've written the cheques and you don't want to just see that continue. You want to see change actually occur. What three things would you do, if you could actually do them, to reduce poverty?