Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Decter, I appreciated your testimony a great deal.
I am going to share my experience with you. I feel it may be helpful for everyone here who may have not lived in Quebec.
I have been in two different situations with this issue. In the first, there was no daycare service and we had to find people to look after our child in a basement. We did not know whether we were going to get daycare at the right time. My wife was incredibly stressed because she did not know whether she was going to be able to work or not.
With my daughter, the experience was the opposite. There was a daycare in the early childhood centre, the CPE, as we call it in Quebec. It had set hours and the people who took care of my daughter were college- or university-educated. The groups were set up in an intelligent way. The hours allowed my wife to work and then to come back to pick up our daughter in safe places that were designed for the purpose.
It is pure ignorance to think that a daycare system like that is not superior to having to chase around in a way that undermines the confidence of parents looking for support.
In your testimony, you mentioned some figures that showed the impact that the daycare system had on women in Quebec. For those listening to us, and even those not listening to us, I would like you to repeat those figures, because they illustrate the positive impact of that daycare system.