Human Resources committee  Thank you. I think your question refers to particular policy instruments that have been put in place. I'm afraid I'll have to leave that to my colleagues here to answer those.

Human Resources committee  Certainly it's a well-known and well-accepted fact that benefits to seniors have done a remarkable job over the last 30 years in reducing low income among that group.

Human Resources committee  No, I don't have any specific comments on that.

Human Resources committee  I wouldn't feel comfortable with saying that we need to revisit it, but I believe that the mandate is to look at all aspects of measurement, and certainly housing could be reflected in this review.

Human Resources committee  Statistics Canada doesn't compile statistics on the homeless, unfortunately, so that would have to be a new measure added as well.

Human Resources committee  I believe that, with every census, we do measure the number of people in—

Human Resources committee  They would have to be enumerated in shelters, but yes, you're right. It would be a methodological challenge to measure such a population in a statistically robust way.

Human Resources committee  The numbers of low income that I have presented to you today, which are on the order of 8%, 10%, or 12% of the population, amount to millions and millions of people, so whether it could skew it or not.... I don't know how large the homeless population is, but it would have to be

Human Resources committee  On the indigenous population, the distinction I would like to make is whether they live on reserve or off reserve. The statistics I showed you today for the indigenous population are for the off-reserve indigenous population. We also compute similar statistics for the indigenous

Human Resources committee  The position of Statistics Canada with respect to poverty.... The term “poverty” and the measure of poverty was well articulated by our chief statistician in 1997 when he said that Statistics Canada doesn't measure poverty per se, it measures low income. Poverty is a question of

Human Resources committee  Not that I'm aware of.

Human Resources committee  No, not with me.

Human Resources committee  No, I would not.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I have a slide presentation. It would be useful to consult it. I will let you know which slides I am referring to. I am going to start with slide number two. Poverty is a multi-faceted subject. There's no agreement among experts on a single measure. Having a low