Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank the witnesses for appearing. It's always fun to be out here in the west listening to different points of view. It's a struggle for us because we have various briefs and issues that we have to discuss and our time is limited. Please bear with us. And we try not to be partisan, but it's in our blood.
Having said that, Ms. Montani, in your brief you talk more about child development than you talk about child care. This government seems to be hard-headed in terms of understanding what early childhood development means and what child care provides to families. They've decided that $100 a month for parents with children under six is the answer and solution to all. They don't seem to understand that there's anything else.
In your brief you talk about early childhood development and you put a different spin on it. Can you perhaps put in simpler terms what we need early childhood development for so that we don't necessarily have to call it child care? Is there a difference?