Mr. Speaker, my question is for the finance minister. Today is the anniversary of the all-party motion to eradicate child poverty by the year 2000. Shamefully we are one year away, but farther than ever from reaching that goal.
What does the finance minister do? He has the gall to stand up at a Liberal fundraising bash and call child poverty a national disgrace. It is his policies that are a disgrace. Six billion dollars in cuts have forced more than half a million more kids into poverty. Where is the real commitment, backed up by real dollars and not empty promises?