I just want to respond.
Yes, of course, I think all of us would recognize that parents always are the first and primary caregivers for their children. No one questions that, no one doubts that, and certainly when my children are in school during the day, I'm still their primary caregiver. As we share care for other responsibilities, in some cases I might care for a family member or parent, but I might not always be able to do that. So of course there is a community approach to that, and we've organized ourselves as a society to be able to do that.
But what I think is really important to acknowledge here is that there needs to be choice. In order for that choice to be available, certainly from the child care perspective, we have to make sure that the services are available for people to access. That means having a system, and right now we don't have a system. We have a patchwork of things that people can put together, but there is really not a system like there is in Quebec that families can access.
If I were to make an analogy, it might be a bit like saying to university students, post-secondary students, “Here's $10,000 a year; organize yourselves and see if you can find somebody who knows something about health sciences and maybe you could have the lady down the block coordinate that.” We don't do that.
When we talk about institutions, institutions aren't bad things. They're things that we've organized to help us support our work as citizens.
Anyway, I'll stop there.