Thank you, Mr. Chair. My first question will be to Madame Shortall.
You talked about a national child care strategy. You have also underlined the challenge of workforce shortages and other labour issues. Can you provide this committee with the reason that the two can go together? Tell us why the finance committee should recommend to the government that investing in child care could be one of the solutions to the workforce shortage in Canada. Do you have the numbers to prove that each dollar invested in child care would in fact have a return for the government? What is needed to convince the finance committee to invest in that?