Okay. I guess I'm taking the remainder of her time.
First of all, I'd just like to thank each of you for your presentations. I think they've been very good today, and I think we've heard some excellent suggestions. It's great to hear the suggestions and not just the problems reiterated, so I thank each of you for that.
I just want to share a little bit of information with you before I ask you the first question.
We talk about child care and the federal involvement, and I think, Monica and Emily, you particularly addressed it and categorized it as the federal abandonment of child care.
My municipality was one of the pilot projects for rural child care under the Best Start program in Ontario, a very, very successful program. I took the time to speak with the director of that program for two counties, and he's just so pleased with it, so very pleased.
I was concerned that there would be a stop in that pilot project and that things would not be continuing as they were. They took the initiative to deal with the province, knowing that there was still federal money coming to the provinces, and they've been very successful. That project has continued on the way it was planned initially.
He also went on to say that with the money in the 2007 federal budget, they don't feel that there will be any problem implementing the entire program.
So I just want you to know that, that everything isn't doom and gloom. Some people have managed to make things work. They've made partnerships and they've carried on.