Absolutely.
First of all, it's important to note that there is a tremendous amount of inequity in the patchwork we have out there. We don't have a system; we do have a patchwork. Another committee, the HUMA committee, is meeting right now and considering child care legislation, Bill C-303, that will provide a legislative framework to guarantee standards around investments, so that the progress made through the bilateral agreements would not be lost and a new government couldn't simply come in and stop that progress.
You raised the question about whether the current investment is contributing to the patchwork. Even though there's an investment, $950 million was basically taken away, leaving $250 million, so it's not like a new investment, but a cut. Then that $250 million, because it's not part of a framework or there's no accountability for it, gets thrown into these one-off initiatives that don't actually deliver results. Some of the tools we've been working on at the CCAAC are policy tools that help us measure what happens if a province invests money in subsidies and whether that actually addresses affordability. In fact, we're finding it doesn't, necessarily, because fees will go up. So it's really important not only to have good solid investments, but to have those investments within a framework guided by the QUAD principles or something similar.