Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, everybody, for having me. This is my first time in HUMA.
Thank you to the witnesses here and to those who testified earlier today.
There's no denying how important this is. I think there's unanimous consent around how important this is. It's unfortunate that it hasn't been rolled out, and that it's taken this long a time, when there was promise it would happen.
Ms. Dubé, it was powerful to hear in your testimony that you were told it would happen, yet it hasn't.
This is absolutely necessary. It reminds me very much of maternity leave, quite frankly. It's very similar in terms of being able to be where you need to be, being covered for that and not having to worry about it.
Getting to the pragmatic side of things, my question is for Ms. Dubé.
Since you've dedicated so much of your life to this, how do you see funding this program? As you mentioned, it's costing more to keep it the way it is. It needs to be updated. It hasn't been updated since 1971.
Where do you see the government being able to account for the costs to cover this program?