Thank you, Mr. Chair.
On this subamendment, where now the words “availability” and “accessibility” have been re-entered, yes, we unanimously agreed to add those words back in, but I guess the point for reference here is that we never had justification from the government, from the Liberals, for why they removed two of the pillar words, “availability” and “accessibility”, from their subamendment.
Yes, we know they're back in and that's what we're voting on here now, but during the time of asking for unanimous consent, there was no opportunity for debate, so here we are, debating the subamendment now, and when we have unanimous consent, we can't get into discussion.
The question now, through you, Mr. Chair, is on why those words were removed from the subamendment at this 11th hour. We're in one of the last clauses that we're looking at for this child care bill. Why did the government, at the very end of this stage, take out the words “availability and accessibility”, which were two of the five pillars of this legislation?