Certainly in our work in developing the national strategy paper, which again included people who both provide and operate child care from every province and territory, we spent a long time on the non-profit/for-profit issue.
From a rural perspective, we don't have the same concerns of big-box child care coming in. They're just not going to come. But we also know that the very best child care, the very best solutions, have been developed around a non-profit base that allows different sectors of the community, well beyond the child care sector, to work together for the benefit of families and children, and that's very difficult from a for-profit base.
So even the people who were for-profit operators, within the context of that national strategy paper, eventually supported the notion that we brought forward in the paper of grandfathering for-profit centres that are there now, but certainly directing the limited funding to developing much more community-based, much more inclusive non-profit centres and solutions--not centres, because certainly we looked at home child care. We looked at, as I said, a whole continuum of service.
But it's really important. If we are going to dovetail with education, if we are going to work together with health, we need to do that from a community base, from a non-profit base.