Perhaps I could comment on how low-income mothers are feeling. We recently had a forum on living wages, a couple of weeks ago, pulling together people from a wide range of faith communities, of aboriginal communities, of low-income people. Lone mothers told us that when they cancelled the agreement, they knew they wouldn't even be able to wait for the year on the waiting list, or whatever.
Putting the pieces together of getting economic independence includes, first and foremost, some secure housing so that you have an address and a way to get going. Then it's child care, if you're going to start with either part-time employment, training, and/or post-secondary education. There's a whole range of things that follow after that, but if you don't have child care, you can't. If you're a parent of a young child—or a school-age child, but let's talk about young children—you're not going to get out that door. So we have lots of lone mothers saying, “Forget it; I don't have a chance, if there aren't going to be more child care services that I'm close to and that I can afford.”