Mr. Speaker, the minister should take his head out of the sand. Each time he is questioned on poverty he says that the child tax benefit scheme is the cure-all, but the truth is that most kids on welfare will gain nothing from this scheme and many of the poorest children will receive less in real dollars than they did in 1984.
While the government dines on rubber chicken at Liberal fundraisers, more than a million kids are waking up hungry. Half of them have been pushed into poverty during this government's term.
Again, will the minister keep the promise that was made in 1989?