We are seeking to provide additional tools in this legislation.
There are, as I said, billions of dollars of outstanding child support that has not been paid. We're providing, by way of this bill—if it becomes law—the ability to gain access to income tax returns to have a better idea of the amount of money an individual has and to be able to collect and garnish income, potentially.
As you say, that doesn't answer all family situations where individuals live in poverty. That's why our government has sought to take other measures to address the poverty that children live in through the Canada child benefit and through various other means. This is poverty with respect to children. Having the ability to be raised in a comfortable manner is a broader issue that can be addressed in this piece of legislation.
What we're seeking to do in the changes that we're proposing in Bill C-78 is to provide the tools to enable, as much as we can, billions of dollars of unpaid child support to be paid.