Sure, I have two comments.
Number one, I think when the promise was made in 1989--and maybe there's someone here who was there then, I don't know--it was said, and there was no plan put in place. So it was a political statement. There were no targets set. There were no timetables. There was no action plan. There were no commitments behind it.
Subsequently, the Canada child tax benefit was developed in 1998, and we know that actually did have some targets and timetables and money and has really begun to make a difference.
But if you look at what other countries have done, you'll see, for example, the United Kingdom in 1999 made a commitment to address child poverty and set out a very specific 20-year plan, set out a monitoring committee, set up a U.K. low-pay commission. They did a number of things and have been monitoring progress on those targets and are making progress.
We're calling on the Canadian government, and many of us also at a provincial level, to set out a poverty-reduction strategy that includes targets, timetables, and specific investments so that we can track progress over time. That will make a difference.