I'm sorry, Minister, but that is not what I am hearing from organizations. I've been in this portfolio off and on since 2006, and women's organizations are very clear that they require stable funding so they can plan and hire, and this mishmash of project funding is simply not working. It's certainly not working for organizations that do the groundwork. I don't accept that answer in any way.
My next question has to do with your statements about women in non-traditional roles and child care. This committee did a study in 2008 of women in non-traditional trades and found that they were excellent. They were probably the best employees ever because they were conscientious and careful. Unfortunately, most of the women who tried to educate themselves for these jobs had to drop out because there was no child care.
You talked about child care; you talked about 40,000 spaces. How is this adequate across an entire nation? Are they publicly funded, are they permanent, is there going to be a program to provide for the kind of child care we need, that we do not have?