Thank you very much.
Thank you to all the witnesses for your presentations today.
I'd like to direct my questions today to both Ms. Bird and Ms. Arnup.
I'll start off with you, Ms. Bird.
Many of us have had a chance to hear about the educational benefits of early childhood education, a topic that you have alluded to. But I wonder if you could tell us a bit about the economic benefit of early childhood education, both with respect to many of the women who work in the child care sector and to what it could mean to have a national child care program, not just for Canadian women but Canadians in general.