Mr. Speaker, in the budget there is not one new cent in health care transfers. Yesterday the human rights commission stated: “Poverty is a serious breach of equality rights and has no place in a prosperous country like Canada”. Unlike this government, the commission recognizes the dangers in the widening gap between the rich and everyone else.
My question to the Prime Minister is simple. Will he make the commitment today to include poverty and homelessness as prohibited grounds for discrimination in Canada's human rights legislation? Will he do that, yes or no?