Thank you, Mr. Chairperson.
It would be useful for Elizabeth to comment on the fact that we aren't talking about a homogenous, uniform system. The whole purpose of the federal money was to help establish a system across the country in which the diversity of this nation could be actually considered—I will use Manitoba as an example—a system in which everything from night day care to rural day care to at-home child care to special needs day care was part of this division.
In response to Dean Del Mastro, this money wasn't just to go into boxes and institutions of child care. It was to go into a system including support for child care workers so that the workers, who are largely women, are not always at the bottom of the income scale. You should comment on that.
While I have the floor, I'll just ask Michael to comment on two things. The first was Dean's comments about focus groups; I don't think you were talking about that. The second was this notion of the diversity of our panels, which is something we are trying to do, in the hopes that it is better. It doesn't really get at the issue of dialogue between groups. Does it reflect citizens across the land?
Could we hear from first Elizabeth and then Michael?