Mr. Speaker, this week we learned the sad fact that 20% of children in Canada live below the poverty line.
I looked closely, but I did not see anything in this budget that will change that. The government supposedly has billions of dollars to give and is handing it to the rich, so why did it not simply raise the tax-exempt threshold for low-income individuals?
It is a very simple solution. That is all the government had to do to drastically reduce the number of poor children. Why did it not do that?