Thank you, Mr. Allison.
First of all, how does this bill ensure ghat federal funding adds to and does not merely displace the dollars provinces are already putting into child care? When I speak of this concern, the best example is this recent federal budget, where the province in which I reside, Ontario, was given $97.5 million. The Liberal premier of the province a week later in his budget allocated $25 million for child care as all he deemed to be necessary. So there we have $72.5 million which the Province of Ontario didn't allocate to child care.
How is this bill going to ensure that it adds to child care and doesn't simply displace the dollars provinces already put into child care? And I note that this government has tripled funding for child care.
Number two, Quebec's program is said to be universal, but only 50% of the parents access provincially funded child care programs. So what is the benchmark for universality, and what is the cost going to be—this is an important point, Ms. Savoie—of achieving universality? Is it going to be the 50% version of universality, which isn't universality, or actual, genuine universality?
Number three, this bill requires auditing the provinces, and audits require supporting bureaucracy. Who's going to pay for this auditing process? Is it the federal government? Is it going to be a federal bureaucracy or a provincial bureaucracy?
Number four, the bill creates an advisory committee. Will members of the advisory committee be paid, and who is supporting that? In that sense, how much of this new funding is going to be spent on administration compared with what actually goes to families?