You probably don't know that two days ago the mover of the bill agreed to have two amendments. One is for regulated home care and includes all the ones being created in the Northwest Territories, whether they're private, non-profit, public, or whatever. That is the amendment mentioned the day before yesterday. I think there is also an amendment that deals with the aboriginal community.
I understand that in 2005-06, if you add the multilateral framework agreement and the agreement that was signed by the former Liberal government, the Nova Scotia government received $54.4 million, and Prince Edward Island received $5.4 million. I saw an article that just came out that said your government has $35 million sitting in the bank for child care, and it's time to start spending it. That was an article in the Chronicle Herald.
According to the calculations, funds have been given for people in Nova Scotia, and in 2007 you're slated to receive another $17 million. So for the last two years, plus 2007-08, that's a total of $71.6 million. That's certainly a lot more than the $4 million, $5 million, or $10 million you may be planning to spend this year—plus the last two years.
Do you have money in the bank that you plan to use later to create more child care spaces? Certainly the math doesn't quite add up, as to the number of spaces created and the funding that was transferred from the federal government to the province.