Wayne Long at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

Thanks, Chair.

Thanks to our presenters this afternoon.

We're here as a committee, obviously, to hear from you and to come up with ideas for recommendations that we need to make to our government, our minister, on poverty reduction.

I thought I'd start with you, Mr. Armstrong. Put yourself in our shoes. In a minute or less, tell me how you would proceed if you were us. What recommendations would you immediately make to our federal government to improve the lives of those living in poverty, short term and long term?