Thank you.
Mr. Ulicki, this is good timing, your being here. The government tells us it wants to charge taxpayers $9 billion for day cares. They believe that the best way to provide daycare is to take money from parents and bring it up to the federal government, which will give it to the provincial government, which will give it to the municipal government, which will give it to agencies that deliver day care spaces.
You had another idea, which was just to build a day care and provide 80 kids with a place to go and be cared for. Of course, the obstacles you faced were municipal, but those same municipal leaders are constantly asking for federal tax dollars. That's why they have elevated this to the federal level. I note that there were roughly 80 millionaires who stood up and opposed your proposed day care. You were going to provide 80 day care spaces. So you had one millionaire for every child, one millionaire blocking every kid, from having a day care space. That is quite an interesting ratio.
One of those privileged elites, of course, was Tiff Macklem, the head of the Bank of Canada. He has been a big rhetorical supporter of government day cares, and yet he and his family objected, saying that your day care would have taken away the charm of the neighbourhood and that it would even have required garbage trucks to come to pick up the waste that would be produced by the day care. I don't know who picks up their garbage. Perhaps Mr. Macklem could testify about how he disposes of his waste.
How much money did you have to spend on government already in your efforts to provide these 80 kids with a day care space?