I'm sounding repetitive, but I guess I would just refer again to the success that other countries, Ireland and the United Kingdom, are having by setting out a plan, as you say, and not just a one-year proposal, but a long-term plan that is monitored, that is tracked.
In the United Kingdom they did not have a minimum wage, but they decided to set one as part of their child poverty reduction plan. They set up what's called the U.K. Low Pay Commission and they established a minimum wage, and it was the key part of their strategy to reduce poverty. Because they were tracking poverty and it wasn't going down as fast as they wanted, they realized they had to raise their minimum wage in order to achieve their poverty reduction targets. It's that kind of rigour that I think is required in order to achieve success.
In Newfoundland, I'm told that there is a minister who's responsible for implementing their poverty reduction strategy and then there are ministers in the other key ministries. They meet on a regular basis, this across-cabinet committee. So all of their programs are aligned in terms of continuing to monitor to achieve their strategy so that it's not just one part of the government that's responsible, it's a concerted package.