Mr. Speaker, I am in agreement with my hon. colleague when she says that issues surrounding the status of women in 1995 are also societal issues. I agree with her. However, are there not still many women burdened with the responsibility of picking up their children at day care, and then going home to do another shift?
I would ask the hon. member if she is going to be able to get her colleagues to take action on day care facilities, because 50,000 spaces a year were promised and we are short 35,000 spaces in Quebec.
Will the transfer to the provinces take place? We have reached 3 per cent of GDP. It is time the Liberal government delivered on this promise, which was one of the promises in its red book.
I would like to know if we can count on our colleague with respect to this issue, which is a particularly thorny one for women. Without day care facilities, women will not be able to enter the labour market if the government waits too long. There are 2 million day care spaces Canada wide, with a shortage of 35,000 in Quebec.
What we in Quebec want to see is not the enforcement of national standards by the federal government, but the implementation of transfers to the provinces so that the government of Quebec can better respond to a great demand from the women of Quebec.
Furthermore, during the consultations on the future of Quebec, several women's groups asked for this assistance so that women can break into the labour market.