but praise for the Alberta's education system, that strives to provide a quality education, with a more or less firmer foundation in the 3 Rs.compared to other provinces. And Doug, there is no definition for poverty rate, and therefore all the figures that are being quoted, the poverty and low-income are being defined differently from one government agency to the next, and the organizations that have an interest in poverty and low-income. However using the American definition, the poverty and low-income percentages, are just below the good old United States. More than likely, the poverty rate stands in and around 30 % and low-income at around the 44 % depending on the region. What Alberta has is good poverty strategies centered around affording housing, compared to Ontario that has no effective poverty strategies. Just because a province has a large number of good paying jobs, does not mean large numbers of people climbing from low-income to higher incomes. Now consider the price of shelter, food and the other basic living expenses, that are eroding people's ability to provide the nice to have extras, the actual low-income cut-off increases, for all of the provinces, putting people in the same position as they were before. Of course, you don't have to worry about that do you Doug? You think it is ducky dory to increase taxes, and repeat the whole dirty cycle all over again, starting off with the maintaining of the status-quo within the education system, the fat salaries and pensions,