The special care needs children in Quebec did have special services prior to the imposition of this day care—not child care—program. You call it “third party” child care. They were all of a sudden lumped in with an existing system that was there to serve all children. What ended up happening is that our special needs children were just about pushed to the side, because they were no longer segregated. The universality program basically wiped out the ability to award them special attention and special moneys. There is a great falling back, a great hole in Quebec's day care system in meeting the needs of special children.
So one should be very cautious about assuming that just because a space will be open it will benefit a special need. That is not the case, and has not been, in Quebec. If anything, the opposite has proven true.