In terms of the universal newborn hearing screen, we're estimating that the program would cost about $14 million per year. In terms of speech and language, at this point, from the numbers we have, we know that Ontario spends $45 million on its preschool program. So we're guesstimating a cost of about $100 million for a federal program on that.
On October 5th, 2010. See this statement in context.