Putting aside the benefits of day care for kids and all that sort of stuff, that seems to me to be a pretty significant issue. If in fact the preference is to make it as easy as possible for women to participate in the workforce, you would have thought that by now you'd be able to see a statistically significant gap between the participation rates of women in Quebec and the participation rates of women in the rest of Canada.
On May 14th, 2014. See this statement in context.