This issue of clawback is something we need to address in the poverty study, particularly how it may be different jurisdictionally. I think we all agree Canadians can be a very generous people. One of the problems with that, both individually and collectively, is that we tend to be generous for specific events. If somebody has a fire, the community rallies and they build a house.
If there's a tsunami in Southeast Asia, Canadians get together. They throw a lot of money and say they're going to do that. When rock stars get involved with specific causes, people get involved. We're not very good at addressing the chronic underlying causes of poverty or the social determinants of health that cause poverty. People who live in chronic poverty don't get as much of that generosity as people who have specific incidents, it seems to me.
We're better at reacting to emergencies than we are to the chronic conditions. If poverty in Canada isn't an emergency, I don't know what is. Do you agree with me that we're better at being generous for specific causes than we are for chronic conditions?