Canada is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. We're lucky to be here, and we all benefit from living in this great country. We all benefit from the generosity of first nations people who welcomed Canadians from all around the world here, and if we look at how those benefits are distributed, we see that they're not distributed evenly.
We should not have poverty in Canada. There's no excuse for a country as wealthy as ours, with as much resource endowment, knowledge, and skill, to have any poverty. I would make it the high-level recommendation of this committee to listen to people who live in poverty.
Listen to those voices. Bring them to the table. Look for concrete ways to get to a point where there aren't children depending on food banks, where there isn't homelessness, and where all Canadians can afford a basic standard of living.