Thank you very much.
I want to start by saying something to my colleagues around the table. It may be fairly obvious, but Ms. Nicolas, Mrs. Hickey and I are all from the same community. Thanks to them, my children and the 106 children you heard about can live in French and learn French in our community. I want to thank them for their hard work. The situation is not easy at all.
Mrs. Hickey and Ms. Nicolas, I also want to thank you for speaking honestly about the challenges you face and those that affect our schools in official language minority communities. Before turning to the school level, I want to ask you about the preschool level, which I've talked about a lot before this committee.
As for my family, we have been on a waiting list for a long time, but we've never been able to access day care because of the labour shortage. I remember the principle telling me about it at the time.
Mrs. Hickey, can you tell us about the waiting list for families who want to put their children in day care? Is the message we need to hear that many families in our communities want access to those services?