Finance committee  No. In fact, the quote that I read earlier from the parent is that families do appreciate income support, but it's not child care; it's not a child care program. There are probably other more effective ways of distributing that $100 a month, like the Canada child tax benefit, whe

Finance committee  Well, I certainly believe that Canada could learn much from Quebec and the way that Quebec implemented their system. It's hard to understand why other provincial governments would not move as quickly on this when we saw the effect in Quebec—a 40% economic return in the first year

Finance committee  Actually, I think—

Finance committee  I think you've reduced the capacity by about $1 billion. Certainly provinces and territories have the opportunity to make choices about that. In Saskatchewan, for example, early learning and child care is under the Ministry of Education.

Finance committee  No, I was finished.

Finance committee  I'll speak.

Finance committee  Thank you. I'm the executive director of the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada, and with me today is Nancy Peckford, from the Feminist Alliance for International Action, a member organization of our council of advocates. Thank you for inviting us to appear before you tod

Human Resources committee  It is actually getting pretty tricky to follow all of the accountability around the investments, isn't it? It is a great challenge to us. We have been trying to track the transfers, going back to—

Human Resources committee  Yes, I'll get to that. You asked about the mechanisms; I'll explain the mechanism and tell you how we got to it.

Human Resources committee  I'll try to be quick. We went back to the beginning of the multilateral agreements and we've been tracking the federal transfers and tracking provincial investments. It gets a little fuzzy, although I do want to say that.... So there are federal funds that have been transferred—

Human Resources committee  There are federal funds that have been transferred that have not yet been invested by the provinces.

Human Resources committee  I'd have to look back on this, but I think the number of spaces in the country has actually doubled since 1994.

Human Resources committee  Yes. For the year 2004-05, which is the year that ended two years ago, there are still eight jurisdictions, including the federal government, that have not yet filed public reports. Until this week there were absolutely no jurisdictions that had filed for 2005-06, which is a year

Human Resources committee  First of all, parents of young children are otherwise occupied with important things and don't spend a lot of time reading government reports. So when community members try to get this information for people like us who are concerned about this, there is nothing we can do. It's b

Human Resources committee  Zero.