Wow. Thanks.
I actually like the Early Years program. My daughter uses them, and I'm not against that. What I am against is that to access the Early Years program or the day care, you have to pay someone else. It still doesn't put one penny in the pockets of the mother.
I made the analogy when I was asked to comment on Dr. Mustard's study that you can go to a centre and get a lot of advice about how to take care of your kid, but if your kid needs food, reading a brochure about food is not going to feed your child. I really believe a democracy owes parents the funding going to them, and then they can go to the free Early Years centre, which is fantastic, which their taxes are paying for, let's face it, or the child care centre, which their taxes are massively paying for whether they choose to use it or not.
So I think we need to give people choices, but the choice should be with the parent. Monica and I have used the same words, but the choice is only a real choice if the parent has money to make the choice.