If the department is able to update the committee on the result of that work, that would be helpful.
I want to switch to Stats Canada. We've been hearing that a lack of child care programs keeps women out of the workforce. Affordable, accessible, high-quality child care is essential to women's being able to get out into the workforce and, therefore, their participation in the economy; but in order to be valuable, it has to be priced so that families can afford it. We're hearing that child care costs today have reached unacceptable levels, increasing almost 10% in the last two years. We had a report that was in the news last year from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. It was saying that $7-a-day child care in Quebec had increased women's participation in the labour force by 8% to 12%.
Is StatsCan gathering any data? Can it provide this committee with data from across the country about how the availability of child care increases women's participation in the labour market?