The argument I had made, that we don't fund the health care system by just giving all citizens their share of a health care budget, was to make the point that we actually need services. We need hospitals. We need doctors. We need infrastructure, and it's available for all Canadians who want to use it.
The long-term vision of a child care system in Canada, a well-developed system of early learning and care, is a system of integrated services in all communities--rural, northern, remote, aboriginal--that respond to the needs of those communities so that they are available to parents and children when and as they need them.
I'll point out that this is required not only because parents work or because parents are in the labour force. It's a part of child development, early learning, human capital investments, and a host of other very positive outcomes for all Canadians and their children.