Thank you.
To Dr. Fortin, I'm very grateful for your work and especially your linkage between the economic benefit of child care and spending on child care. Although this study is just one month old, we've already had witnesses come to argue that programs aimed at low-income Canadians become underfunded. We had Dr. Donna Lero saying, “programs targeted for poor families and poor children tend over time to become poor themselves”.
I'm hoping you can talk with us more about the concept of universality and how that can relate to making sure parents have continuing access to affordable and accessible child care.