moved for leave to introduce Bill C-203, an act to amend the Auditor General Act (Poverty Commissioner).
Mr. Speaker, in the absence of tools to evaluate the effectiveness of the federal government's anti-poverty programs and policies, I move that there be created a position of poverty commissioner, whose mandate would be to analyse the causes and effects of poverty in Canada, to evaluate the effectiveness of measures taken by the federal government to reduce or eliminate poverty, and to advise the federal government on measures that it could take to reduce or eliminate poverty.
The bill is the same in form as Bill C-490, which I introduced in the House of Commons during the preceding session.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)