Thank you.
I will say very briefly that with respect to pay equity, every single woman in our caucus and our members support proactive pay equity legislation. We spoke against it. You know, having another election three months after the last one wouldn't have resolved the problem, but we will be introducing proactive pay equity legislation if and when we form a government. That is a commitment that our leader has made and that I'm making to you here today. I'll leave it at that, because I don't want to go on with this.
I really would like to get back to some of our discussion earlier. I want to expand a little bit on Madame Gibeau's response earlier, and also Madame Boucher's, with respect to investing in services as opposed to tax measures. It's a big issue with me only because some governments tend to use tax measures a lot to provide social programs, which I think always miss women, especially, and low-income Canadians, in my view.
So I understand very clearly the $1,200 you've already mentioned, in addition to the child tax benefit. We've had presentations from many others on the child tax benefit, which could be increased to $5,000. The would-be fund should be strengthened in some way. The early learning and child care program--quality, accessible, and all of that--would be another, as well as a national housing strategy, the things that we'd actually create. Could you give me, because of your experience, some other suggestions that would take away from what I would call the tax structure to invest in people and families, which would help us?
The question is to Madame Boucher and Madame Gibeau and any others, because they were the ones originally who were talking about this.