Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for having us today.
I am Céline Bourbonnais-MacDonald. I am a professor at Fanshawe College in the early childhood leadership degree program, as well as an adjunct associate professor at Western University. My area of focus is educational leadership.
I have been connected with the LCCN for the past two years as a researcher in the area of early childhood leadership and I have been supporting their work in advocating what a national early years framework would look like and proposing some of the key elements that should be addressed via a budget requirement.
The research I'm conducting right now is focused in the Middlesex-London region. We are looking at key stakeholders and trying to basically co-design an early years policy framework from the needs and aspirations in the southwestern Ontario region.