Human Resources committee  You have to be careful when you distinguish between tax credits and tax benefits. Tax credits don't help lower-income people. You have to spend the money before you get it back.

Human Resources committee  That does not help reduce poverty. Tax credits just don't help. As far as tax benefits are concerned—

Human Resources committee  Anyway, I just wanted to make that clear.

Human Resources committee  Yes, there is a program at LAMP Community Health Centre, but I'm not sure in our community that it's seen as a huge cause of poverty. There's a lot of very well educated, very sophisticated people living in poverty, and I wouldn't associate general educational levels with poverty

Human Resources committee  Yes, there have been lots of discussions in the 25 in 5 Network. One of the things I think is interesting that's happened in Ontario, and I'm very excited by it, is the deprivation index that was developed by Daily Bread Food Bank, because that doesn't assume that once people a

Human Resources committee  No, it's not. It's Daily Bread Food Bank. This was developed over a long period of time. I was involved in that development. It's saying that we don't want people living just at a subsistence level. We want people to have a decent lifestyle, and that is what I think is interest

Human Resources committee  The current deprivation index has ten things on the index. I'm trying to remember all of them.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I'm hearing impaired. Can people hear me? Good. First of all, thank you for having me here. I'm very pleased to be here. The South Etobicoke Social Reform Committee is a group of people who live or work in the Etobicoke-Lakeshore area. There are people who represen