Finance committee  Yes, absolutely. It's very interesting when you hear from other nations around this world that take that holistic view, where it starts with prenatal and goes on until your very last breath. Canada falls very short on a lot of those measures, so, without a doubt, looking at the w

Finance committee  The Canada child benefit is certainly, as I said, very progressive, and it's certainly helping a very targeted population of Canadian families in supporting their day-to-day expenses, without a doubt. The other piece of that, of course, is around the affordability of child care,

Finance committee  Good afternoon, and thank you very much. I want to thank you on behalf of the Canadian Child Care Federation and Canada's child care and early learning sector for the opportunity to present today to all of you on part 1 of Bill C-74, specific to the measures noted with regard to

Finance committee  It's about holistic policy and family policy in this country, which we really don't have a lot of. We certainly have the Canada child benefit. Prior to that, we had the universal child care benefit. Now we have the federal government back at the table with dollars and policy with

Finance committee  Ultimately, as we say in our brief, the federal government right now is committed to a 10-year funding plan of $7 billion in total funding by the end of the 10th year, and I believe that at that time around $800 million is going to go into the system. The benchmark in the OECD i

Finance committee  It's not so much a national program as it is continuing down the path that I think the federal government has already started, to execute bilateral, but starting with a multilateral framework, which outlines the principles and policies of federal investment, then work on provinci

Finance committee  Good afternoon to everyone. Mr. Chair and committee members, I thank you on behalf of the Canadian Child Care Federation, Canada's child care and early learning sector, for the opportunity to present to all of you today on how increased federal child care investment measures woul

Finance committee  I don't believe we do know what we want to do. I think, as we mentioned in our presentation, there's a lot of passion about this issue, but there's also a lot of misunderstanding about this issue. We don't have a lot of accurate data that reflects the modern Canadian family today

Finance committee  Sure. One thing we do, obviously, is to provide services to our membership and directly back into the affiliates that make up the federation as well as the centres and family child care homes, etc., that make up those memberships. I can give two very brief examples. One resour

Finance committee  No, the universal child care benefit is a great family income supplement, but it's not a replacement for sound policy that encompasses all aspects of early childhood education. Absolutely, in Quebec, as you already referenced, the cost of care is $7 a day, but it rises to as hig

Finance committee  Absolutely. I think that has worked well in the past on this issue, and I think that would continue to work well.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and honourable members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to appear here today. I'm pleased to be here representing the Canadian Child Care Federation, Canada's largest early learning and child care organization. We are comprised of over 20