There's no doubt that a national child care program will benefit women across the board in this country. I think specifically about the women we work with, the women who are in shelters. This is an example of where flexibility will be required. Often a woman who goes to a shelter will not necessarily go to the shelter down the street. In Montreal, a woman is generally placed in a shelter beyond her immediate neighbourhood. We would need flexibility because for a woman to lose her child care privileges, that is, her spot in a subsidized child care environment, would be very devastating and could be one of the reasons she might not seek services but would hold on and put up with the abuse.
I think it's a good program, but all these things need to be put through the gender-based violence lens.