Sure.
I would say that the proposal that has come forward from the current government is indeed very significant and will go in large measure towards achieving a vision for a national child care system, which has really been under discussion for the last 50 years in Canada. I think the work going forward is really going to be about that kind of pan-Canadian work of co-ordinating with provinces and territories to set-up the Canada-wide system that we all envision.
Let's not to lose sight of the ball. This is now an issue on which there will be differences of opinion, differences of views across parties, but let's just acknowledge that, like health care, child care is something that we want to see as a core of our public services, and we want to see that all parties have their own plans and their own ideas on how to move the ball forward.
I would just add that there are many benefits of a national child care system, but one of the things that Century Initiative has identified as a continuing issue is the income gap between immigrants and non-immigrants in Canada, which is particularly significant for women immigrants to Canada. There's strong potential for the national child care system to really support the kind of involvement in the labour market that will help to close that income gap.