Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the Minister for joining us today.
Minister, I want to start by saying congratulations. The child care plan in my home province of Ontario and across this country is really revolutionary, and it has taken decades of talk for many different governments to get to this point. You're the minister responsible for a file that's really changing lives in this country, so I want to say thank you and congratulations.
In my home province of Ontario, there have been some challenges. I've met with stakeholders, including parents, folks from organized labour and people who work within the sector—providers—and the big challenge they have is that Ontario seems to not be fulfilling its end of the agreement. In fact, I read an article back in February that talked about how if you compare when the Ford government took power to now, there's $85 million less being spent on child care by that very government. To make things even worse, the $10 billion plus that has been allocated to the province is not being spent on the specific file.
Is Ontario fulfilling its end of the bargain and is the money being spent in the province?