Mr. Speaker, poverty levels in Quebec and also in the other Canadian provinces are a concern for all of us.
If there is a scourge we must deal with, it certainly is the poverty of children, of single mothers in our society.
This is one of the reasons why, in our past three budgets, we closed the majority of loopholes. What is left are incentives to help industry create jobs. One of the most important ones, for instance, is the taxation level which is much lower for small and medium size businesses than for major corporations.
The best way to help is first to give money directly to the poor, but also to create jobs, which has been the result of our past three budgets.