Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am definitely in favour of this motion today regarding anti-poverty. It is obviously a very tricky subject. Obviously you have heard today a lot of supporting views from very different angles. I would like to attack this from a more pragmatic angle, an economic angle.

If I was to use the analogy of what we do here today as an automobile, as a government we tend to focus a lot of our efforts on tweaking with our engine, making our engine strong. That is not a bad thing, Mr. Speaker. That is not a bad thing for the Members to work on. But keep in mind if we were to use the analogy again of a vehicle, then poverty

would be our flat tires. This is what we have to deal with, Mr. Speaker and Members, is that we have flat tires.

Industry and research has told us that if we were to look at our flat tires, if we were to fix these flat tires, the return on our investment as a government would be anywhere between four to 15 dollars for every dollar we spend on fixing our flat tires. These are numbers that are factual in print. If we were to take the time and to look at fixing these tires, to get four to 15 times on our dollar I think it is a great amount of help for our economy because it takes those stresses away from things like social programs, health, incarcerations. If we have flat tires, Mr. Speaker and Members of this Assembly, then we need to take it to a good garage. To take it to a good garage we need to take it to good mechanics. Some of our great mechanics are sitting with us today. These mechanics are hoping and waiting to fix our flat tires. I support the motion of anti-poverty. Thank you.