Mr. Speaker, a genuine movement is taking shape in Quebec, led by prominent citizens
including academics, bishops, union leaders and business people, to take up the fight against poverty, which is affecting an increasingly larger segment of society.
Instead of proposing measures to eliminate poverty, the latest federal budget merely aggravates the problem by shifting many people who would normally have access to unemployment insurance on the welfare rolls.
Will the Prime Minister admit that Canada is getting poorer and poorer and that an increasingly large proportion of the population is suffering as a result? And could he explain what he, as the Prime Minister of Canada, intends to do to give new hope to four million people who are living below the poverty line?