Mr. Speaker, the member's comments just do not bear scrutiny. He talked about the Liberal cuts. It was in fact because of Liberal programs that poverty reached its low ebb of 9.5%.
The current government came into office in 2006 and within a year, we were starting to see more unemployment.
Just as an example of something that he touts, he touts an investment in the child tax benefit. His government put $5 million into the child tax benefit. It put $100 million into putting up signs all over the country to advertise their projects and $1 billion for the G8-G20. Just using his example, that means that the Conservatives value their signs 20 times more than they value vulnerable Canadians and the weekend meeting in Toronto 200 times as much as they value vulnerable Canadians.
People in Canada are suffering, people who need assistance. They are not getting it from the current government.
As a simple measure, a first measure, everybody says, “Let's have a strategy. Let's figure out the pieces, but let's agree that there should be a federal anti-poverty strategy in Canada”.