Mr. Speaker, the government's grasp of the poverty reality is about as real as the Prime Minister's homeless imaginary friend. Maybe the next team Canada mission should be right here at home so the Prime Minister and his colleagues can discover the Canadian reality of growing poverty.
Child poverty in Canada is the highest in 17 years. Will the government recommit to Canada's millennium project, unanimously adopted by the House, namely eliminating child poverty by the year 2000?