Mr. Speaker, the member should be aware it is obvious that child poverty is the number one issue on the minds of all Canadians.
Therefore the agreement that we made with the provinces and the new child tax credit are intended to help alleviate the concern of all Canadians. To suggest that somehow any member of Parliament on any side of the House would not see this as a major challenge is quite disgusting, to say the least.
We are trying as governments to deal with child poverty. They are not interested on all sides of the House in having any underclass in our country.
That is the NDP philosophy. That is why people do not vote for the NDP. It tries to split people into interest groups. We try to deal with Canadians overall.