premise: Honourable senators will remember that the committee which reported just prior to Christmas received information about a number of cases in which claims were brought by people living in poverty in Canada, usually women and children, both alluded to by my colleagues who spoke before me, against our federal and provincial governments.
hypothesis: there are cases of men living in poverty in canada 
reason: the cases are usually women and children, this means there are other cases. The only missing category is men so man have also made cases. 