Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
My next question is for Mr. Kershaw.
Regarding childcare services, you are surely aware that Quebec has had a fairly progressive system for a few years now under which parents pay only $7 a day rather than the full amount. The rest of the cost is covered by taxes paid by parents and other Quebeckers. As a result, Quebec has the highest taxes.
Quebec parents claim less in tax credits on their federal income tax return, since they pay less in childcare per day. This means that the federal government saves $250 million a year. But Quebec parents are in fact spending that money, not in cash but through their taxes.
The Bloc Quebecois has been calling on the federal government for years to return that $250 million in savings to the government of Quebec. After all, Quebeckers have chosen to create a progressive childcare system, and that money should be used to further improve the Quebec daycare system.
In your opinion, should that money be given back to the Quebec's state to found its daycare system or put into the debt consolidation fund, as it is currently done?