I would like to go back to Mr. Savage's remarks.
First of all, we do have a plan, and the plan was to address universality right off the bat, and $100 went out to every child under the age of six, as of last July. So there was over $1 billion put immediately into each and every child. That was your choice in child care, and it was universal.
The child care spaces were to be implemented starting in our budget in 2007, and that is what are working on, to create new spaces. It's started. We are giving money to the private sector to create spaces, but also to the provinces. We are dealing with the provinces to create spaces as well. On Thursday, the provinces all stated that they had created spaces very recently. I know Saskatchewan has created 500 spaces, whereas under the Liberal plan they didn't create spaces. We don't know what they did with the money, but they did not create spaces. Now they are, because that is part of the plan.
I must say, Mr. Dinsdale, I think this speaks to the bill. It's pretty hard for us to vote on it and to be in favour of this bill when it has left out a significant part of the population that it was meant to address, and this was part of the remarks of the author of the bill. She specifically said we must create spaces for the aboriginal people, and you have clearly showed us that it doesn't exist in this bill. Therefore, to support this bill would be supporting a bill that most people in the House must know they're not supporting on your behalf.
I want to talk about the section of the bill that talks about accountability, because that's what we're really talking about. It's not accountability.