Mr. Speaker, in my view the statistics the hon. member cited are the most important and dramatic reflections of what is taking place in Canada overall and the changing society we are in.
I would ask the hon. member to look very carefully at the cause of that circumstance. It is because single parent mothers have substantially fallen out of the labour market. There has been almost a 15 per cent decline of single parents in the labour market. Therefore, the answer to their problem is not more transfer payments. The answer is helping them get back to jobs, get back into the labour market, get back to being employed. That is the most effective way of putting additional income in the hands of our single parents across Canada.