Mr. Speaker, on behalf of 93,000 Hamiltonians, many of them children, who live in poverty, I want to thank the member for Trinity—Spadina for reminding us of the failures of the government with this budget.
In fact, just yesterday I was at a walkathon, an annual charity fundraiser for Wesley Urban Ministries. The $85,000 that was raised is going to be applied to the needs of children in the east end of Hamilton.
It is very shameful from my perspective when so many people are hungry and are living on the streets of our country that the government would pay $15 billion down on a debt, but it could not spare $4 billion or $5 billion to address poverty in this country. To be quite clear, the Conservatives are just not getting this job done.