Thank you very much.
My first question is for Mr. Lindsay. I was taken by the fact that 38% of all families headed by lone-parent mothers had incomes that fell well below the income cut-off in terms of poverty, and I wondered two things.
What proportion of poor children live in mother-led single-parent families? In my own community, the United Way and the University of Western Ontario have done a study, and in London-Middlesex--a fat cat, a very affluent community--more children go hungry than anywhere else in Ontario. I think that's a statistic that shocked our community. So I want to know about the poverty rates among those children.
The second part of my question has to do with child care. All the literature I've read in regard to affordable, not-for-profit, regulated child care indicates that is the key, the very first step in reducing and ultimately ending child poverty. Has any of the research you have done or the information you have from women or women's groups corroborated that or supported that?