Finance committee  I am accompanied by my colleague Nicolas Zorn. He is the researcher who put together our file on social inequalities and all those issues, so I will ask him—if that's okay with you—to answer your questions and any other questions. Nicolas.

Finance committee  I thought I had a minute left. So I will wrap it up. We need policies to ensure that the middle class is stable and strong. Some ideas have already been put forward. We at the institute encourage continuing this debate. If I had a single recommendation for you—besides those I ha

Finance committee  Good morning and thank you, Mr. Chair. I will speak in French. I want to begin by thanking all the members of the committee for looking into income inequality and, more generally, social inequality. Income inequality cannot be addressed through discussions on income alone, as th

Finance committee  I am talking about inequalities, not only between the richest and the poorest, but also between the richest and the middle class. That issue has already been raised. We all agree that the fight against poverty is extremely important. We cannot abide people living in poverty in Ca