Yes. We are one of the few countries within the G20 that... Basically, for parents, especially in some of our larger cities—Montreal, Vancouver, and Toronto, and London is moving up there—the cost per year of having one child in regulated child care, if not two, is even higher than tuition fees for post-secondary education.
If we're trying to balance having quality care at the same time as maximizing the pedagogy and the curriculum that come with care and learning, what is being proposed is basically giving children across the country an ability to move forward within the structured school system with a lot of potential. I mean potential not only from the point of view of academics, but also their personal well-being, their self-worth. There's ongoing research, and McMaster University is a key leader in that.
It's really important to consider what parents want. What they need first is obviously, as we discovered through the pandemic, accessible and dependable care so that they can continue to do their work, whether they're working from home or whether they're frontline workers. With that in mind, a system that can offer that, regardless of whether we're in crisis mode or not, is supporting families from that perspective.
Also, I want to reinforce what we were talking about earlier in our presentation, Kara and I. It's the concept that the infrastructure of the system—the building, whatever that looks like—is dependent on a very strong, qualified workforce to make sure that our children are in the right environment and that parents have choice within that system, which includes emergency care—