Mr. Chair, I will be splitting my time this evening with the member for Nepean—Carleton.
I want to jump to some questions for the minister. I want to talk to him specifically about certain forms of discrimination that maybe he has not taken into account in his bureaucratic babysitting program. These hastily announced spending initiatives do not take into account the needs of rural based families. Most of the money, actually I think all of the money, is going to urban based institutionalized day care. Rural families, who count on informal and seasonal day care arrangements and who do not have access to urban programs, are left out of this.
Could the minister tell me why he is creating a system that provides rural parents with no support for their own child care choices?