Thank you, Chair.
The Prime Minister famously said at the UN once that if you don't measure, you can't manage. That was a fair comment, and hopefully true. Yet we have the Auditor General's report here that says not only is the government not measuring the impact of their tax expenditures, but they are not providing information to parliamentarians to actually understand what the impact has been. Let's look at some of these right now...so flying blind and playing politics.
The TD Bank pointed out that the investment per $1 in early childhood education, child care, earns back to the Canadian economy anywhere between $1.50 and $2.78. By any economist's or banker's definition, that's a good investment and a good return on money.
You cited in the government's changes to childhood benefits to Canadians that there would be negligible impact on the creation of child care spaces and early childhood education. Is that true?