Of course, ideally the day care would be as close as possible to the actual House of Commons. We would only have to go down the stairs to breastfeed the baby, do what we have to do and come back.
I experienced that at the NDP convention. There was a day care in the building where the convention was held. All I had to do was go down a flight of stairs to visit with my daughter and breastfeed her. Afterwards, I was able to go back to the convention and continue to participate.
We will soon be moving into the West Block. We could move the day care closer at that point. While the Centre Block is being renovated, we could take advantage of that to rethink things and prepare a room. The move gives us an opportunity for better planning.
As for getting around, that is quite complex. When you leave the parliamentary precinct and use Ottawa streets, ideally, the child would have to be in a child seat attached to the bus seat. I did this once. The problem is that the green shuttle buses do not have safety belts. As for the white buses, their seat belts are not long enough to go around the child seat.
The simplest solution is to take my car, and that is what I do. That is in fact how I got here earlier. I put the stroller and all of the things in my car and I drove to the Centre Block where there are now parking spots reserved for mothers with strollers. I took all of the things out of the car. When we are done, I'm going to take my car because going up the hill with a stroller isn't always easy, especially when there is snow. In the summer, it is a little easier to do it on foot, but in the winter it is quite tricky. For the moment, the easiest solution is to take my car to get around. On the bus it is quite complicated because the bottom part of the stroller takes up a lot of room. You can manage, but it's quite complicated.