Mr. Speaker, yesterday a devastating report by the National Council of Welfare noted that the political landscape is littered with rhetoric about children, broken promises and token efforts that provide very little real help to families.
It has now been 10 years since parliament voted to end child poverty by the year 2000, but in fact half a million more kids live in poverty.
Will the Prime Minister commit to use the budget surplus on real measures to reduce poverty, such as the national child care program?