Thank you very much, MP Koutrakis. It's nice to see you again.
If I could just maybe pick up on Robert's comments from earlier, when you think of the national child care program, you don't naturally make a connection to construction. Certainly it will help with our efforts to get more women into the workforce. I think you're right to point out that Quebec has the largest participation rate for women across Canada, and it's because of the child care program. We support that and we see it as something that will help attract more women into construction.
I think the concerns raised around flexibility can be easily addressed by having child care centres that are open really early in the morning and late at night to accommodate for shift workers and so on.
The other thing, just picking up on what I said earlier, is that we have a challenge in attracting young people into the trades. Having access to good-quality child care will help us attract them, because they're often concerned about how they are going to manage child care when both parents are working. How are they going to manage child care when someone is working on a construction project? For example, in the big cities, construction shifts usually start at six in the morning and end at two so that the workers can get home ahead of traffic. How are you going to handle child care in that system?
I think the market will respond, based on these concerns, and provide more opportunities for women and more opportunities for shift workers and construction workers to get into the trades, for example, because they'll have assurances that safe, affordable, accessible child care is there.