Thank you, Chair, and thank you all very much for your presence here today.
Let me say at the outset that while my dad was raised on a farm in Saskatchewan, I am downtown Hamilton through and through. I am not on my turf here. I want to be clear about that.
The first question I have is one that a city slicker would ask. Since the 1930s, we've been coming out with different types of assistance programs, and they keep changing. Why the constant change? One would think that after 60 or 70 years you might start to get the hang of it. Then any changes you'd need to make would be tweaking as opposed to reconstruction. If it's a political answer, because of the politics of the day, so be it. But I don't understand why we have to keep doing this over and over again.
Can you help me?