Human Resources committee  To add to what my colleagues have said, all three of their points are very important, but we didn't touch on housing. We need to deal with housing as well. To address what Mr. Lobb said earlier, we need to also discuss—

Human Resources committee  No.

Human Resources committee  I'll just briefly start off the answer to this question and then my colleague Dr. John Courtneidge will finish off. We strongly believe that an immediate solution to this could be the creation of a poverty commissioner, followed by the creation of a poverty-focused office with

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. Millions of Canadians aspire to a life free from poverty—the hungry, the homeless, and the disenfranchised, the working poor, the unemployed, and the socially assisted, the aboriginal, the immigrant, and the person of colour, the person with disabilities, t

Human Resources committee  Sure, I'll do that. The Universal Periodic Review is a new peer review process via the United Nations Human Rights Council, through which states review the human rights records of other states. In February 2009 the Government of Canada was urged by the UN to address the growing

Human Resources committee  I will start, followed by my colleague, Dr. Courtneidge.

Human Resources committee  That's fine.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Good morning. I'd like to thank the committee for this opportunity on behalf of my colleague, Dr. Courtneidge, and me. Canada Without Poverty, officially the national anti-poverty organization, is an incorporated, not-for-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated