Mr. Speaker, when we are talking about child poverty nothing is acceptable. It is true that we have not eradicated child poverty as we had hoped we would do. I know that all members in the House, not just those on the government side, want child poverty to be eradicated.
I gave the numbers in my speech a few minutes ago. We have managed to bring down the numbers. We have not managed to get rid of the numbers all together. What I will say is that we are working hard to bring the numbers down even more. Child poverty is very complex because we are not just talking about the poverty of children, we are talking about children being poor if their parents are poor, and very often it involes a single parent family.
We are working, not just on the children themselves but on an economic and social change in our society. This takes a long time and it takes a great deal of investment.
What I can say in answer to the member is that we are working on it. We have managed to bring down the numbers and we will continue to bring down the numbers.