StatsCan reports that the greatest percentage of children in child care are younger than school age. If we use the average of six children per child care worker, as fewer are needed for infants and more for school-aged children, that would mean 41,000 new child care workers, as you have said.
If we continue doing that math, if we look at all of these spaces and look at an average child care facility of about 75 children, which is quite large, that would mean 3,338 new child care facilities would have to be constructed in order to accommodate these 250,000 new children in the system, and that's within three years. The document that we had from your department said it's within three years. What is the plan to open more than 3,000 child care facilities with very large numbers of 75 children per facility over the next three years?