Mr. Speaker, researchers from the University of Toronto's faculty of medicine recently published a study of mothers who have to rely on food banks to feed themselves and their children.
This study, commissioned by the health department, paints a gloomy picture. These women often have to deprive themselves of food so their children can eat. More than 26% of women who were interviewed said they had suffered from severe undernourishment during the last year. Seventy per cent of these women relied solely on social welfare to survive, and their meager income was just 52.8% of the amount needed to reach the poverty line.
The Bloc Quebecois strongly denounces the political choices made by the Liberal Party and accuses the government of being largely responsible for the increase in poverty—