I think the social determinants of health approach to health care, for instance, attempts to build a different way of addressing policy issues. As a policy wonk, I can list off by ranked order the things that I think are most important, but what we need to move out of is looking at things piecemeal.
Looking through a poverty reduction lens means taking a look at everything we do, from energy to our job creation programs to what we do with kids and seniors. It means looking at all the facets of our society, and considering how all those things contribute to the nature of poverty for different kinds of people in different circumstances in Canada. It means looking at all the different programs that we provide and examining how they can be tuned to address poverty issues at the outset as well as how they can be used to address people who are suffering.