As a mother of a toddler in Ontario, I can appreciate the costs that we have here.
Child care is really vital for women to enter into the labour force when their children are younger. When you look at the data I showed, for instance, on the wage gaps between men and women, when women first start out in the labour market in that 25- to 29-year-old range, the gap isn't very large. Most of it has to do with selection into different types of fields of work, humanities versus STEM fields, these kinds of things. It's after a few years, when they've had to take departures out of the labour force for child care and other reasons, that they have some skill depreciation and that has a long-run impact on their wages for the rest of their lives.
Now, in a perfect world, with perfect marriages and perfect marriage contracts, that could be rather inconsequential. You can negotiate that within your family. But we do not have complete contracts there, so it is women who bear the burden typically associated with child care. Improving the child care system, I think of this as a market failure, and improving the child care system to better facilitate young women in the labour force would certainly have its benefits, in my opinion.