Human Resources committee  You are absolutely right.

Human Resources committee  We have studies dating from 2006, 2010, and 2011. So they go back far enough and we see the trends in poverty and in other areas as well. Federal support, which means funding from Statistics Canada, would enable us to continue these studies, to increase their frequency, and to e

Human Resources committee  That is an excellent question. We are seeing an increase in the isolation of seniors, not only in Montreal, but in all urban areas. On the whole, is it primarily an urban effect, which we see everywhere? Is it because of the loss of a partner or a mental health problem? Like it

Human Resources committee  I think it's a really fair question. It's important to understand the implications of spending. I think we have to understand all of the various impacts it will have, including on government budgets and the capacity to sustain them over time. I would use the analogy of investme

Human Resources committee  It's the orphan of the health care system, of course, and it's treated unequally with regard to other forms of health. Some people don't even think it's a health issue. I think the commission's work has been excellent, but I think there's a huge void to fill. I think federal le

Human Resources committee  I think it is. It doesn't even have to be in terms of straight-up transfers. It can also be in terms of loan-type programs. Remember, if these are supposed to pay for themselves, then provincial savings can actually return the money to the federal government. It can be a really

Human Resources committee  These centres have been a very positive initiative.

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. Maybe I'll be slightly self-serving off the top here and say that there's a great book that has been written on that. It's called Early Intervention and is published by Nova Scotia publishers.

Human Resources committee  Signing copies? There's one left here. We're going to do an auction, maybe, and see what we can get for it.

Human Resources committee  Yours truly wrote this last year. It's the James Lorimer publishing—

Human Resources committee  I think that when you study, as I have—although not as a professional scientist—the issues of poverty and others, you realize fairly quickly that the earlier one intervenes in terms of people with vulnerability.... As soon as we have signs of vulnerability and fragility, and as s

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. I am very pleased that you mentioned the National Council on Welfare, which has worked very hard on poverty reduction. In fact, New Brunswick's entire poverty reduction plan is in part based on the report the national council produced at that time. This repo