Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you to all the witnesses.
This week we saw the announcement of the fiscal economic update. Also, previous members had discussed the caregiver credit. I find these to be half-measures, temporary measures. We know that money is being given to child care, but it's not what experts and stakeholders in the system have asked for—it's actually far less.
When there was an announcement for long-term care workers and increases, I believe the number that they were trying to achieve was 4,000. We heard that to provide the four hours of necessary care per day, Ontario alone would have to hire 10,000 additional health care supports and workers.
Diana had mentioned that while all this money is being put into place there don't seem to be strings attached to it. In terms of going forward, how we look at these long-term solutions and how we get into them, Ms. Smallman had talked about implementing them with that future focus, that long-term focus.
How would something like a universal child care act or national standards in an act that fell under the Canada Health Act ensure that universality and that fairness? How would that help build up those systems?