Mr. Speaker, in June, when the Liberals announced that they would commit $5 billion over a five-year period to create a Canada-wide child care network, the Prime Minister said that Quebec would receive its share of this $5 billion without having to be accountable to the federal government. However, yesterday, the Minister of Social Development said the opposite.
Who is telling the truth? Is it the Prime Minister, who, in the spring, said that Quebec would continue to have full jurisdiction over its child care centres, or is it the Minister of Social Development, who alluded yesterday to the implementation of Canada-wide standards for all the provinces, including Quebec?