I would approve of funding a significant amount of money, for example, $5,000 to $10,000 per child, and let the parents purchase or arrange their child care things.
I know that the day care movement has been so strong, so powerful a lobby, that it actually has the ear of government, and it's hard to deny their case. You are well down that road anyway, and you are probably obliged to fund day care itself, but what I would ask for then is to fund non-day care also. They do that in Europe. When we compare our day care systems to theirs, we forget a few key things.
In Germany, from what I hear, women work only part-time; the day care is right down the street and they see the kids over the noon hour. It's quite a different situation. In Calgary, for example, you may be driving to a different suburb, and you don't see your kid for the next 10 hours. We have to look at options, but if you're going to fund—you're asking me for the formula—obviously we're going to have to fund some day care and fund parents.