I would say that there are three elements. We think about it as a three-legged stool in child care. You have to attend to affordability, quality and access all at the same time. If you push too hard on one, you sacrifice the others. We focus a lot of affordability, and there are good reasons. It's ridiculously expensive. In Ontario, an infant spot in Toronto costs about $1,700 a month. If you compare, if you were to go across the bridge—if you're in Ottawa, you would go to Gatineau—it's about $180 a month. We see a real variation.
I understand the real focus on affordability, but a hyper focus on affordability denudes those other two legs of their heft. I'll give you one way to understand this that I find helpful. If we just focus on affordability, I could give you $6,000 and you could go out and try to find care. What you would probably have to do is find the cheapest care available. It doesn't build a system and it would stimulate low-wage female employment. The emphasis on affordability is good but it doesn't build the system, it doesn't attend to quality and it doesn't deal with access. I can give you $6,000, but you can't buy something that doesn't exist.