I said in my last answer that the early childhood centres are an essential entry into the education system for minorities.
In my travels, I met the president of a college where there was a day care centre that served three purposes: to care for the children of professors, to care for the children of students and to act as a training centre for the college's students who were taking courses to become child care workers themselves.
The loss of funding resulted in a direct loss of $250,000. In addition, the college is virtually facing the inevitable step of closing that day care centre. That is a threefold loss, for the community, for the students, for the professors, and it's also a loss for the training of young people.
When I raised this question with the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, it was explained to me that that was a result of the operation of federal-provincial agreements, of the difficulty in ensuring that linguistic clauses are reinforced. It's complicated, but the result is that a college president told me that he was facing the problem of the likely necessity of closing a day care centre.