Status of Women committee  In the high performance CPE network, early childhood centre networks in Quebec, about 80% of personnel have a CEGEP degree in child care services. In the private sector, which is the low-quality sector, it's 40%. It would be an interesting idea to explore the possibility that a

Status of Women committee  It's passion.

Status of Women committee  You're definitely right. However, we live in the country we live in, and there certainly has to be a negotiation between the national government and the provincial governments. If I were Jean-Yves Duclos —he's a long-time friend—I would definitely push forward those elements th

Status of Women committee  It would be provincial programs, but I think the idea of an ombudsman is a good idea. I don't know to what extent it would be possible, but definitely that really appeals to me.

Status of Women committee  First of all, there has to be a lot more investment. I'm talking from the point of view of my province and the program I know. It's quite obvious that we're missing a large number of children from low-income families and that more resources have to be invested, not only in the ch

Status of Women committee  I would like to make a couple of points. First of all, I have 19 years of day care under my belt because I have many children. My wife has run a very large organization, so we've had to make sure that there was flexibility, reliability, and high quality in the day care centres wh

Status of Women committee  Yes. You can achieve the same level of net after tax credit, which is the case now for various.... The stupidest thing the provincial government has done is to maintain the financial incentive for poorer families to send their kids to those private garderies. It's less costly fo

Status of Women committee  In 2013 I published a paper with my Université de Sherbrooke colleagues, Luc Godbout and Suzie St-Cerny. Luc is the chair of the centre for research on tax policy. Our paper shows that in 2008, as a result of the Quebec system having generated much higher labour force participati

Status of Women committee  I would say it would be to avoid the big refundable tax credit system that Quebec instituted in 2009. In 2008 and starting in 2009, it decided to enlarge the refundable tax credit for parents who were sending their children to a private garderie so that the net cost after tax cre

Status of Women committee  I will begin. I want to begin by thanking you from the bottom of my heart. Being invited to testify before a committee like yours always stirs up special emotions in me, as several people in my family have been members of the House of Commons over the past 135 years. Here is my