Zanny Minton Beddoes, the economics editor for The Economist magazine, said when she was in Ottawa a few weeks ago that one of the reasons why income inequality is so great in the U.S. is that education is funded by the local tax base, and of course rich communities get great schools and poor communities get poor schools. So we could see, with the balkanization of the economic situation to provinces, a direction not dissimilar to that.
She also said that the greatest area of equality of opportunity investment to address this is investing in children. To what extent does Canada need to have a more focused approach to early learning and child care in Canada?