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As the process has gone on, more and more it's becoming clear that tackling poverty has a strong economic dimension as well, or economic advantages. I think that's very much echoed by the OECD, of which, of course, Canada is a very distinguished member. In a recent meeting there of ministers of social affairs, the OECD Secretariat made a very strong statement in that regard when they said that not only does poverty have social justice implications, but it also has severe economic implications currently and into the future. I know that all the member states, all the countries represented there, had no difficulty in accepting that and endorsing it.
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