You know what you're talking about.
Absolutely, yes. We secured the child care expansion loan for Spryfield because of federal funding, but in the community of Spryfield there is still no child care centre. So this community with the highest number of single mothers in Canada, central Spryfield, has no child care centre. When we build the child care centre, because of the way the provincial funding is set up for subsidized child care, there's no way we can be assured that the child care spaces we create are going to reach those who need them most.
How do we align provincial policy around access to licensed child care that will advance a national poverty strategy? I think we need to look at a national child care strategy. We need to look at the Quebec model. Quebec has encouraged and facilitated the growth of non-profit care. You don't have a situation such as exists in Nova Scotia, where you have a high-needs community that has no child care centre. We ought to be able to assume that child care centres exist where there are areas of need, but that doesn't happen in Nova Scotia. There's a disconnect between where child care centres develop and where the need is. Where the centres develop and how high-need families get access to spaces is also a significant policy concern.