Mr. Speaker, not only is this government spending more on child care than the previous government, it is spending a lot more than the previous government.
One of the unfortunate things under the existing agreements is that the provinces have been given one additional year. That in a sense is unfortunate because the agreements signed by the old government do not create any targets for child care spaces. The program we intend to proceed with will establish 125,000 spaces over five years.
More importantly, since the member raised farmers, our program will give farm families real child care money and theirs would have given them nothing.