Through you, Mr. Chair, what I would clarify here as the critic to this bill is that in following up on the emails that I've been given, it is my job to ask why this was taken out. I appreciate that you may not want to answer, but if we don't know that there is another agenda here.... Conservatives have been fighting from day one, saying that this is not a universal child care bill because it excludes tons and tons of families, and the wait-list, the accessibility, the affordability are huge issues.
It is benefiting those who are in the system tremendously. I will not dispute that. However, as the critic, and from the emails I've received after watching this committee, I see these two pillars of availability and accessibility as basically the two biggest issues in accessing child care.
On the record, I just want to understand why those two words were removed in a subamendment put forth by the Liberals.