Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to all the witnesses.
This is very important. Ottawa is a bubble, I can tell you, being a British Columbian. You go there and there are lobbyists and very little discussion of what's happening in the daily lives of Canadians. So the fact that you're here today helps break that bubble and provide a healthy dose of realism that we need to take into consideration.
I'd like to start with Ms. Harney. The fact that you've come here 25 consecutive times and we still don't have a child care program and international standards in place is at the same time a little depressing, but it also shows to what degree activists like yourself are determined to keep pushing until Canada joins the modern age and actually puts in place a national child care program.