Mr. Speaker, when I listened to the member from the government side talk about how prosperous Canada is, I found myself sitting here trying to figure out if he and I both live in the same country.
If I take the member at his words with respect to how well we are doing in Canada, could he explain why we have seen a steady increase in child poverty over the last 10 years? There will be 1.5 million Canadian kids going to bed hungry tonight as we speak. We have seen thousands of protesters on the Hill with respect to the homeless. Thirty-six per cent of the people who are unemployed in the country do not qualify for unemployment. We have students carrying high debt loads by trying to access higher education. We have people on stretchers in emergency rooms.
Can he explain to me how this is happening in such a prosperous country?