Mr. Speaker, I constantly hear the members of the government talking about child poverty and how they are going to get rid of it.
I would really like to hear a definition of poverty from one of the government members. When I have asked in my riding for the definition of poverty, people always come back to me with, the children would have no shoes, no television, no refrigerator. There would have difficulty affording food and people would be living in very difficult conditions.
Would the member, please, give me a definition of poverty and tell me what percentage of his riding is living that way?