It's probably the biggest question I have ever been asked. It's multifaceted. It's not just mandating a minimum wage of a certain amount. If I were to mandate a minimum wage of a living wage, $25 an hour, we would be putting people out of business and the cost of goods would be going up because the cost of business goes up, so we would need a new living wage. What we need is a cross-government approach. There has been a lot of talk about guaranteed basic income in this House. British Columbia just looked at this. They undertook a study. It took two years. They had an independent commission. They looked at 40 different reports. What conclusion did they come to when the report was released just last month? They said that a guaranteed basic income probably is not going to solve all the issues. What you need are targeted supports. You need to deal with people if they have addictions issues. You need to make sure that there are jobs for people to have. You need to make sure people can be trained. You need to make sure people have housing.

Just throwing money at a problem, as simple as it seems, and that is probably the allure of it, it does not necessarily mean that it works. We are undertaking a review of the Income Assistance Program to ensure that we are helping people get over that welfare wall, get out of poverty. We are undertaking a review of the Student Financial Assistance Act to see if there are barriers to people getting training. We are looking at our apprentice programs and how we support businesses and people who want to become journey-persons, to see if we can help facilitate that.

I have 11 minutes left, and I am sure I can fill the entire 11 minutes, but I will leave it at that. There is a lot going on, Mr. Speaker. Everything we do here, everything we do in this Assembly, is to get people out of poverty; it's to improve the lives of our residents. It does not lie solely on myself as Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, and it certainly is not tied solely to the minimum wage. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.