Thank you so much.
My first question is for you, Ms. Neapole.
I'm very grateful that you raised very clearly the need for a universal, fully publicly funded, affordable child care system. It's something that I have been working for, and the New Democrats have been talking about, for a very long time.
One of the things we've heard is that the government, after 23 years, again has promised that national child care system, and they have provided some funding, so I'll recognize that.
However, within organizations that you mentioned, such as Child Care Now and all of those stakeholders, experts within the field of child care have said that in order to get to a place where they can provide adequate child care, they need $2.5 billion immediately, $10 billion over five years. They need a national child care act, a piece of legislation that's put into effect to provide national standards across the board to create that universal child care system fairly in every province.
Could you talk about the impacts? The government has given some money, but it hasn't given those full amounts, and what does that mean to implementing that national child care system?