Thank you, Mr. Chairperson.
I have lots of questions. I'll start with child care.
Monica, we just received some numbers we asked for from the department about this so-called child care benefit, which is really a euphemism for baby allowance and it's nothing to do with child care. It shows that in every single income category, it's the one-earner couple who benefits, and the single parent, who's usually a single-parent woman, gets the least amount from this benefit. So it seems to me this just reinforces my belief that the Conservatives would like to take us back to the cave.
I don't think they have any understanding about women wanting to work or having to work, and I think it's important for you, Monica, to use a minute or so to tell Conservatives about what a disservice they are doing to women in this country, to productive workers, to our business economy, to the marketplace, because of the fact that they cannot simply recognize that child care is supposed to be about providing real choice to women, to families, to parents, who have to work or want to work.