Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll try to make this very quick.
I commend the basis by which you've started this, and whole idea of an act per se for child care is a noble one. However, it's a question of—and this reverts back to universality—the circumstances that exist in my riding and I don't think are really distinct to just my riding. Here is the situation.
Eighty percent of child care delivery in my riding is for profit, and a meagre one at that. We have a situation by which the delivery of this is very difficult, under circumstances where it is done over one or two or three centres, similar to health care.
If this is to come into effect, from what I see it's going to be difficult for parents who live in smaller communities to get to some of these larger centres. You mentioned that the for-profit facilities, whether at home or at smaller centres, will be grandfathered. Is that correct?
But the problem that remains beyond this is that the penetration to 80% is still going to be very difficult. I want to hear that under an act this child care delivery, in the context of rural delivery, is still going to be honoured.