Human Resources committee  You'd ultimately have to define what you mean by “basic income” to be able to, in the end—

Human Resources committee  I'm sorry, just to clarify, you asked about the priority of children in poverty reduction, or generally?

Human Resources committee  The 300,000 number remains the expected outcome of the Canada child benefit. However, part of the paper or study that would be undertaken here, and part of what the poverty reduction strategy in the end would try to articulate, would be on the kinds of targets and indicators that

Human Resources committee  The foremost thing that I would say, as the minister said, is that it's the Canada child benefit that was put in place. It shifted the previous programs into one program that really targets families that are more in need than were supported previously. That is a first big step in

Human Resources committee  Mr. Chair, let me just answer at a very high level, and then I'll turn it over to my colleagues. The poverty reduction strategy is meant to be, as the minister indicated, a collaborative effort. He said it is not for one jurisdiction, not for one level of government, not for one

Human Resources committee  What I would say, as the minister said, is that all of this is multi-dimensional. It's not just about mental health. It's not just about food security. It's not just about income. It's all interconnected. Hopefully this will happen over the next number of months. That includes

Human Resources committee  That's interesting. It's a good question. Thank you. I want to make sure I understand your question. Is it about how the government can get to financial literacy more directly, potentially at the high school level, etc.?

Human Resources committee  Right.

Human Resources committee  Our department isn't responsible for this, but I know that there was a financial literacy strategy that was put in place. It's about outreach, making sure that there's consensus building, and that the issue is raised among provinces, but it's not run out of ESDC, so I'm not that

Human Resources committee  As the minister mentioned, there's also concern around certain more vulnerable groups not being able to access it. A lot of work is being done to try to get to the people who are less likely to access it, to provide information, to facilitate, and to find ways to make fewer barri

Human Resources committee  I will give a general answer, and my colleagues can add more details if they wish. As a rule, we look at the recommendations and study each of them. Is it a fact-based recommendation? Is it a good recommendation? We document it all and we provide an opinion to the minister. Afte

Human Resources committee  As you know, we give our opinion to the minister. As the minister just said, the content of the bill is consistent with the direction taken here today. It is very clear that they are both going in the same direction.

Human Resources committee  I will say two things very briefly. First, I hope that innovation will be part of the strategy. The things you just mentioned are a little innovative. There are things that we can try, and if they work well, we will have to see how to implement them to have a better strategy. S

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, for having invited us here today. We are very happy to be here to answer your questions. This is a very good question. I think that the study this committee will be conducting is exactly the type of thing that will allow us t