Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank our colleague for bringing this private member's bill forth. It was a true privilege of mine to be the seconder of this bill.
As someone who was adopted at birth, it really means a lot. I spoke about it. It was a very personal speech that I gave. I also have another sister who was adopted at birth, and I know that in our family's case, my mom didn't work. She was a teacher, and she had to take quite a bit of time off. It did put a lot of personal financial strain on our family. That's just a personal note.
I'm really glad to see something like this come forth, and I think it's really important.
Someone who wrote into the committee—and you touched on it really briefly—spoke about child care spaces, but her comment had to do with the extra expense of children under 12 months, which I thought was a really interesting comment from her.
Is that something that you've heard as well?