Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou for his question.
I find his question a little difficult to comprehend. I think he was discussing the technical advisory committee for persons with disabilities. In fact, some of the recommendations made by that advisory committee really run into problems in terms of provincial and territorial jurisdiction, such as the disabilities supports, income support and labour market programming, which are primarily in the area of provincial jurisdiction.
Nevertheless, I am told the government is working with the provinces and territories to try to reach some agreement on that. In fact, in the budget we have introduced a number of additional measures with respect to persons with disabilities and they build on many of the measures that have been introduced over many years.
In response to the member's question, I think the budget delivers many measures that assist low income Canadians. The tax reductions are targeted at low income Canadians and middle income Canadians. In fact, because of these measures, thousands and thousands of Canadians will no longer have to pay any tax.
There was discussion before about there being nothing about housing mentioned in the budget. The government has responded in a very big way with affordable housing and also with many initiatives to deal with the homeless.
Are we happy with the level of child poverty or poverty in general? Of course not. That is why the government is very active in trying to build a very sustainable economy and a good fiscal framework so that more jobs, more investment and more income can be generated and so that more can be done for people of low and modest incomes, people with disabilities and the homeless.
I think that on balance in Canada we have a very high standard of living generally. We continue to increase our standard of living. We are envied around the world, in fact, for the lifestyle that we have in Canada, but of course we can do more and I am sure that the government will in the years ahead.