Finance committee  I'm not aware of what previous governments have advocated for.

Finance committee  As part of the poverty reduction strategy, the government committed to establish a national advisory council on poverty that would produce an annual report. As part of that obligation, that annual report would be tabled in Parliament.

Finance committee  Not in this particular part of the legislation.

Finance committee  I can't tell you what a future government might do.

Finance committee  Thank you. On August 21, the government released “Opportunity for All—Canada's First Poverty Reduction Strategy”. This strategy sets concrete targets for poverty reduction by 2020, reducing the poverty rate by 20% from its 2015 level, and reducing the poverty rate by 50% from it