Mr. Chair, I will once again refer to my former responsibilities, which I loved, I might add. I must make it clear that it is far from our minds to just take $1.2 billion.
I would remind my hon. colleague that we allocated $150 million of the last budget for early childhood development, so that the provinces could use that money for that purpose, for children from birth to school age. That was the purpose of the program.
Now we have decided to go further. WIth the national child care system, based on a system similar to Quebec's, parents will be able to obtain child care that is accessible, top quality and extremely reasonable, because we will be covering the costs.
So, getting back to early childhood development, the provinces file a report—