Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate my colleague on his new responsibilities as the critic for family services.
I want to ask the member a question and touch on something. He talked about a promise that a previous Liberal government had made to deliver on a national child care program. The program was set up and it was signed by all 10 provinces. The plan was ready to go.
As we heard earlier, we ended up in an election. The Liberals lost power at that time. It went to the Conservatives. Then, two years later, the Conservatives completely cancelled that child care plan. They left the plan on the floor. Then there were another eight years where they could have brought something else forward.
I understand the member's criticism of the previous government for taking awhile to bring forward a plan, but does the former Conservative government not bear some responsibility for dropping the entire program, cancelling it and then not bringing anything else forward in its place?