Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Chong will be asking questions. I just want at the outset to mention that this government does support child care, and we've shown it by tripling the resources that are budgeted for child care—$5.6 billion per year.
We do not support a bill that does not provide the choice in child care but instead provides a one-size-fits-all model that will not address the child care needs of our diverse family of Canadians.
We do not support a bill whose only clear purpose is to hold the parents to ransom with threats of taking funding for child care away from the provinces, because if the provinces don't meet the federal standards, the bill blocks it.