It truly is an historic investment. We've never seen this scale of investment in child care from a national government. It has been a long time in the waiting. Decades ago the recommendation was made, so kudos to this particular government and to our first female finance minister, in addition to the feminist cabinet, for pulling that off.
It is a massive win that will ease the squeeze on the generation raising young kids. It will be easier for them to deal with higher housing costs now that we are putting in a real plan to ensure that child care never again costs another rent or mortgage-sized payment. It will take us a while to get there, but the dollars that are on the table are real, and when matched with a contribution from provinces outside of Quebec—Quebec is already a key leader—we are going to see something really exciting. It will absolutely improve labour force participation for women generally and for parents as well, more generally, and it will be a big part of our building back better and stimulating the right kind of economic growth.