Human Resources committee  P.E.I. is the same. We do not regulate the on-reserve child care centres.

Human Resources committee  As a good public servant, I'd like to say there's an option D—that we do get back to the table and start talking, as we have before, about the issues facing children in this country, and accessibility and affordability of child care, not necessarily through this act but through t

Human Resources committee  No.

Human Resources committee  No.

Human Resources committee  Are you referring to the 2005 agreement?

Human Resources committee  Certainly our province did sign the agreement—

Human Resources committee  —and of course we ran out of time. An election occurred immediately after that. It was our intention to sign into that arrangement. I think the difference, though, from what was being expected of provinces in terms of accountability with respect to the QUAD principles and the p

Human Resources committee  I'm personally not familiar enough with the merits of tax points vis-à-vis money. I know at the end of the day it all comes down to the fiscal arrangement within the country. Is your question, Monsieur, about how we feel about tax points?

Human Resources committee  The older you get, the more you think that wouldn't be so bad. I was here, and I heard that gentleman. On the money that goes into early learning and child care in our province, we spend it so prudently and preciously that we sure wouldn't want to put a dent in the car. I'll

Human Resources committee  That's too much of a political decision that I'm not prepared to talk about.

Human Resources committee  There were 200 new ones in P.E.I.

Human Resources committee  We can't tell.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. A universal program from the perspective of Prince Edward Island is so far from reality that I don't know if I can dwell on that. Parents within our province can access a child care centre. The competing interests that we have are affordability and sustainability. And

Human Resources committee  As I pointed out, our issue is not the need for more spaces but the sustainability of the ones we have right now. We have developed a plan to increase direct grants to centres and to increase the subsidization to parents so that wages can be increased and the administrative and s

Human Resources committee  Over the five-year period, it was about $25 million.