Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you all for coming.
I'm going to try to get in as many questions as I can.
Morna, I just reflected that I was sitting in that chair 25 years ago when I was chair of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care talking about this very thing. As you mentioned, we did have hope when in 2005-06 there was a decision to move forward. Unfortunately, for lots of reasons we won't go into here, that didn't happen.
You mentioned the $7.5 billion in 2016-17 over the period of time and as you may know right now, the government is trying to create three-year bilateral agreements with provinces and territories to get that money out.
One of the challenges—you mentioned a recent election and I am from the province of Ontario—is there is a concern about the movement toward opening up child care from the not-for-profit sector to the profit sector and having the profit sector being able to access government dollars going into child care.
Can you talk about any of the concerns you might have of how that may slow down this process and what the ramifications of that would be?