As I mentioned in our presentation, it hasn't been working. We've seen some of the lowest growth rates in early learning and child care in the past decade, since the implementation of the universal child care benefit. The challenge with the benefit is that it is unaccountable to actually create child care spaces unless parents pool their money together to actually build programs. It's not going to create the spaces that are lacking in communities.
On March 31st, 2009. See this statement in context.