Mr. Chair, what I have said consistently from the beginning is that the promise made in the campaign last year was for $5 billion over five years in order to help build an early learning and child care system. It was never expected that $5 billion over five years would end up being able to create an early learning and child care system.
As I have said repeatedly, as the hon. member would know, in terms of the way in which a health care system is created or an education system is created, at any particular moment when those are in their formative stages we do not know what our ambitions, desires and hopes are going to be for that education or health care system.
Nobody would have guessed a hundred years ago that our education system would be something wherein it is understood that high school graduation is basically for everybody, or that there would be colleges or universities of the numbers and dimensions that exist. Forty years ago, nobody would have believed us about a health care system with the kind of ambition that we have.
What happened over time is that people decided for themselves what was important and what was not. In the future, people will decide how important early learning and child care is for them.