Absolutely. As Mr. Tam has already mentioned, the assumption is that parents and grandparents bring nothing or contribute nothing to Canada, and that is simply not true, and not fair to our sponsored relatives or refugees either.
In the absence of a national child care strategy, or even a provincial child care strategy for Ontario, what parents and grandparents do is critical in terms of providing child care, of child-minding so that they free up the adults in the family to pursue other opportunities.
More than that, they actually contribute to the cohesion of the family and the community as well. And parents and grandparents—some of them, anyway—are definitely participants in the economy in one way or the other—even the underground economy, and we hear stories of that all the time.