Human Resources committee  A friendship centre would be an example.

Human Resources committee  Presumably if the bill were to pass and the interpretation that was given to the criteria and conditions was deemed to be contrary to the way first nations delivered their programs, in theory, or supposedly, we would have to withhold funding.

Human Resources committee  No, there was no legislation. There's never been any federal legislation on child care, if that's the answer to your question.

Human Resources committee  I can speak to that. When I talked about the spaces in 2006, that was based on the announcements that had been made, not on the reports on space creation. That was basically them telling us what they were going to do with the money. The agreements—

Human Resources committee  It's what they have done up to 2006.

Human Resources committee  Yes, but the money goes through the CST, and that is an unconditional transfer. The agreements that they sign are not related to any withholding of funding, so that was never their premise. The idea of withholding funding from provinces was never part of a federal policy objectiv

Human Resources committee  As I said, I think the reporting regimes and reporting commitments are in the agreements. I know they're late. Our reports are late. We're still committed to reporting, and in my conversations with provinces, I do believe they are also committed to doing the reports. The idea i

Human Resources committee  I'll take a stab at it. Some of the early research—You're quoting the Perry preschool project, which was in the United States, and that was for severely disadvantaged children. They did come up with a figure of $7 or $8 return for every dollar invested. Gord Cleveland did a cost

Human Resources committee  I do. Let me find them, because I don't have them off the top if my head. Do you want to speak to that?

Human Resources committee  I do have percentage figures: 45.9% use care in someone else's home, 27.8% use a day care centre, 21.6% use care in the child's home, and 4.7% use another form of child care. That's our information.

Human Resources committee  This is non-parental care, so it does not include children who are being looked after by their own parents.

Human Resources committee  Okay. The numbers are that 45.9% use care in someone else's home, 27.8% use a day care centre, 21.6% use care in the child's home, and 4.7% use another form of child care. I should add that these are 2002-03 numbers, and these are non-parental arrangements.

Human Resources committee  I was. I would just say that it's hours and hours and hours of discussions. In terms of the agreements that we've negotiated in the past, all jurisdictions look at every word of every agreement and are very much involved in crafting the words. So it takes as long as it takes, I g

Human Resources committee  In the 2000 ECD agreement and the 2003 multilateral agreements, Quebec very clearly stated that while it agreed with the principles of those agreements, they wanted to reserve sole responsibility for this particular area. That was respected by all jurisdictions, so in those agree

Human Resources committee  The information we have in terms of space creation that's probably the most accurate is the data in early childhood education and care in Canada. The figures in 2004 were around 745,000 spaces. Our estimates—and we've done it just by looking at what the announcements have been si