You've exhausted me going through that list. It's amazing how much we've been able to get done in the last several years, and it's all in support of Canadian families. That makes me feel really good. Canadian families are in a much better position now than they were seven years ago, and that's quite gratifying.
The really gratifying thing is when we hear from parents like Sharon Ruth, like another mother with whom I spoke, whose daughter was suffering from extreme anorexia. The woman had to leave her job on many occasions to look after her child. She's a single mother, and she was telling me that she really could have used this kind of support over the last few years. It would have made a huge difference for her. Because of her inability to focus solely on her work or solely on her child, her work performance was affected and she felt bad about that.
This is the sort of situation we're dealing with: parents who have had to go through some pretty trying things, trying to balance their number one priority, which is of course looking after their sick child, with the requirement to earn money to pay the mortgage, to pay the bills, and feed the rest of the family.
These are trade-offs that we don't think Canadian families should have to be confronting to the same degree that they have had to in the past. That's why we're offering this program, as we promised, to support Canadian families, recognizing that while work is important, family is the most important institution in our country. That's why we have to provide every form of support to families that we possibly can.