Madam Speaker, I respect my colleague from the Reform Party and thank him for his nice comments. I had hoped to hear some of the same comments from his other colleagues this morning.
We are talking about poverty. I am a person who knows about poverty. I understand my colleague was born and raised in the thirties during the great depression. I was born and raised in later years. I was born in 1955. Today we have been talking about how we differ, how to establish where poverty starts and ends. When I was first married I had to go on welfare. I know what it is like to be on welfare and to be on EI. I also know how it feels to have small kids and not have enough money to buy a loaf of bread or a quart of milk. I went through that. That is poverty. One Reform member mentioned those starving to death in Sudan. I would give my shirt to somebody who needed it because I was one of them before.
Last summer we in the House of Commons gave ourselves a salary increase. I took my salary increase and gave it to charity. Is the hon. member willing to do the same?