Thank you, Madam Chair, and I am sharing my time, so I'll be quick, with about three questions.
Certainly this is a huge issue, and I think you can see that everybody around the table agrees that it is. I think we also know there has been a lot of talk about it over the past however many years—twenty-some years—and we still see disturbing comments such as on the handout you gave us, “How's Canada doing in meeting the resolution? No Progress.” Those are things we shouldn't have to be looking at.
As governments over the past numbers of years, we should have been able to put something in so that this statement would be incorrect. Now is the time when we need to get something done, so let's hope the will is there to do it.
I have just a couple of questions. You base your statement and your statistics on the poverty line. What is the poverty line?