 Legislature, then British Columbia New Democratic Party Social Development critic Michelle Mungall says, "One MLA flat out [Dalton] said he didn’t know any children who were homeless, that there were no children who were homeless and no children were going hungry at a time when child food bank clients have increased by 30-percent.” In the legislature, Dalton said, “I have not met children starving in British Columbia in the past 50-some years.If they were, then I think that would be, normally, willful or criminal negligence.