The understanding I have is that when the Liberals came across the country with Mr. Dryden offering those arrangements, they put a condition on the funding: it was to be only for the creation of child care spaces. The Government of Alberta did not want that condition placed on it and wanted to find a way to also fund parents at home, but was told they couldn't have any money unless they went along with just the child care funding. The Government of New Brunswick felt similarly; they said they couldn't afford to walk away from that money, but didn't like the conditions.
I think the way the Conservatives have been trying to handle it is to provide the transfer payments. I'm not an apologist for them and I'm not quite sure what they're planning, but I think this bill has the same problem that the Conservative policy has. It is trying to focus on one style of care, which is not fair, and a lot of parents do not want you to put those conditions on that money.