Thank you.
I would like to carry on my exchange with Ms. Ward. You only had a few seconds to speak and you did not really answer my question. I will explain.
In Quebec, child care centres play an education role which is to prepare children for the education system. In that context, charging parents seven dollars already goes against the principal of free public education. Ideally, if we have had the resources, we would have liked daycare to be free, just like primary and secondary schools are. In comparison society invests a lot more to educate our children. A parent who would want to raise his own children at home could not do so; it is not allowed. Even if it was allowed, I think that few people would agree that the parent should be paid to do so, since we have decided collectively that our society should take charge of our children and our future.
Is there a difference between pre-universal public schooling and the expectations one would have for universal daycare that would ideally be as cheap as possible? If so, what is that difference?