There's another thing I wanted to see if you could wade into.
A Hamilton Spectator article I was reading said there are 2,772,000 children under the age of six. Ms. Chow said yesterday that the cost of institutionalized day care would be $8,000 per child. If you do the quick math on that, $22 billion is what this program would cost.
If we use that math instead of Ms. Savoie's, if we use the figure Ms. Chow used yesterday or two days ago rather than the one Ms. Savoie said, that's $22 billion. If we're not using existing funds, as Ms. Savoie said, I guess we'd have to renegotiate existing funds that go to the provinces. Following that logic, I guess Ms. Savoie would be suggesting we'd have to look at cutting funds to health care for the provinces, cutting environmental programs trying to combat global warming.
Does the federal government have the ability to change all these previous arrangements unilaterally with the provinces?