Thank you.
I won't press the point with you, but for the committee's reflection, that still seems to come from a perspective of assuming that there is a cost to the family instead of an economic benefit. It may be that for families who are struggling economically, one of their big challenges might be child care, and having a supportive grandparent present will allow them to improve their economic situation.
I want to drill down further on the issue of ministerial instructions. Some members of the government on this committee have said that action could be taken by ministerial instruction on some of these issues.
The nature of a bill, especially a private member's bill, is that it takes a long time for it to wind through the process. We're trying to deal with this bill as quickly as possible, but assuming everything goes well, it will go through report stage, third reading and likely committee study at the Senate as well.
The government could move forward to demonstrate its commitment on some of these issues on ministerial instructions right now, could it not, even while the bill is proceeding? It doesn't make much sense to me that they would argue that we don't need these provisions because we can do it by ministerial instructions, when they have actually failed to act when it comes to ministerial instructions.
Could you maybe just clarify the timelines that would be involved in ministerial instructions, if the government were to try to move on some of these issues right now?