Thank you for your question. The federation doesn't take a stand on how moneys are divided and spent. We focus on quality and early learning in child care. I think the focus would need to be on how those policies are affecting the actual quality of early learning and child care for parents and for the actual practitioners within Quebec.
I know there was some information in the news just a little while ago about how it sets up a discrepancy, and about whether parents, for example, should be encouraged to pay more than the $7 a day to support more services, including dance classes, physical activity programs, and such. If the infrastructure surrounding the core practitioner, parent, and child, and the partnership relationships there are setting up policies that put it into a disequilibrium, then I think it needs to be looked at more carefully.
We don't want one child to be experiencing one thing in one environment that another isn't because of the funding. It should be because of the parents' choice.