Human Resources committee  Ms. Chow, I think this is definitely not the way we want our early learning and child care system to go. In many ways it's terrible that Canada is the lowest spender and therefore the slowest industrialized country to get off the ground with early learning and child care, but at

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I would really like to congratulate the Province of Quebec for having taken such a strong step, in terms of the universality of child care in Canada. It is really unfortunate that most provinces have either not had the political will or the funding—and I think in most

Human Resources committee  Yes. We are trying to track the amount of money. What this table shows is first, on the first page there, a list of allocations from the federal government that were explicitly dedicated to early learning and child care funding from 2003-04 on. That doesn't include moneys that

Human Resources committee  I won't take that much time, I think. Good morning. My name is Sue Colley. I am the executive director of Building Blocks for Child Care, B2C2, which is a community not-for-profit development agency for child care, and I'm also a steering committee member of the Code Blue campa