Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Prime Minister.
While the stock market is soaring and records are being set on Bay Street, Canadians are setting records for poverty. Canadian children are going to bed hungry. The unemployment rate is unacceptably high and millions of Canadians are looking toward a bleak Christmas.
What specific measures does the Prime Minister intend to introduce in the very near future in order to alleviate child poverty and to help the unemployed? The poor and the hungry children need help now. The unemployed need help now. They cannot wait. Can the Prime Minister indicate what specific measures he will bring in before Christmas to give some hope to impoverished Canadians?