Thank you, Mr. Chair.
What I am saying is this. We are telling Canadian citizens living in nine of the ten provinces that the federal government will have a hand in the delivery of services, in the funding arrangements, and in the setting of standards, but what we are saying to those Canadian citizens resident in the province of Quebec is that the federal government will not have a hand in it. So you create this bizarre situation where members of Parliament in Quebec can determine the minimum standards for child care in all provinces except the province in which they are resident. One could call it the Outremont question.
I put that on the record, and I think it is an important thing, because if we are to be a political community of some 32 million people in the northern half of this continent, we have to take collective approaches to these kinds of issues.