Andrea, thanks very much. At the beginning you talked about your husband taking time off and being that rock star or “what's he doing here?” Our son is 14. My husband stayed home with him. When we talk about the bonds, I do see my husband.... He does have shared responsibility. Maybe it's also because I'm in this field of work, but he does have 100% shared responsibility with my son. We see that. I do know that has a great impact.
We talked about the parental leave and if there are top-ups available. Now, we have to recognize that many of the jobs, when we talk of top-ups, are from the public sector. We have to look at the economics here. When we're doing this, what we're asking then of our private sector is to take on a brand new payroll, whether it's going to be a tax or something that they're going to be paying more on.
With where our economy is now, how are our private sector businesses going to be successful if they're topping up a 35% to 40% increase when a person is not at work, and they'll have to pay somebody full time? I understand the rationale, but how does it fiscally work? How does it benefit both the employers and the employees, so the employers can stay in business as well?