Mr. Speaker, today we mark the 20th anniversary of a parliamentary motion calling for the elimination of child poverty.
We have much work to do to, even to change people's attitudes, including members of the Conservative government.
The minister for employment insurance suggested that she did not want to make EI too lucrative. Today we read the comments from the Conservative member for South Shore—St. Margaret's who referred to the unemployed as “all those no-good [blanks] sitting on the sidewalk in Halifax”. I cannot even use the word in this chamber.
Is this what the Prime Minister meant when he referred to a culture of defeat?
An email apology will not feed children or house families. Will the government commit today to an anti-poverty plan for Canada?