Thank you for the question.
I’m less familiar with provincial accountability, so I won’t comment on that. However, I think your point about access to services, particularly in rural settings, is fundamental.
There are serious problems with access to child care in many remote regions in Quebec. I'm not talking about early childhood centres, public day care centres, but private or family day care centres. They are extremely difficult to access.
Sometimes children enrolled before they've even been born won't have a place until they're 24 months old. In this case, mothers will very often have to take unpaid leave to stay at home with their children and will have to postpone their return to the labour market.
I don't have any specific recommendations, but I think the issue you've raised is extremely important.