Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This segues well into what we were discussing earlier and I think it is essential that amendment CPC‑7 becomes part of the bill, i.e., that Bill C‑35, in Clause 11, be amended by replacing line 14 on page 6 with the following:“representative of the diversity of Canadian society, in particular Indigenous peoples and official language minority communities—to.”
This is about the National Advisory Council of Early Learning and Child Care, and there should be a decent representation within that council. We would have wished for even more wide-ranging representation, but the amendment does at least give status to Indigenous peoples and official language minority communities.
We think that this should serve as basic criteria for the appointment of certain council members. We would have liked to go even further, but unfortunately, the government is opposed to that. In any event, we should at the very least stand up for both official languages and Indigenous peoples.