The Premier of Ontario has actually said this publicly. I think it was in her throne speech. She mentioned the poverty reduction strategy that they just released and said that we need a national child care program and that Ontario would welcome it. I haven't asked them, but I think it would depend on what a federal government would do.
The provinces are the ones that are basically on the front lines on child care. It's not that they haven't been making changes—and many of them have been trying to make improvements—but basically they don't have the money.
I want to emphasize again the point that this isn't really a provincial issue. It's like health care. In fact, a lot of the things that Dr. Simpson said are very applicable to child care. It really needs to be done within a kind of overarching policy framework, because what we have is a real waste of money and resources because we don't have a coherent approach.
Just so we understand, there is a way to do this in Canada. We have done this before by having a federal government that works with the provinces and territories to actually execute a program that isn't one-size-fits-all but is one that fits Canadians in rural communities and in indigenous communities all across the country. Based on what the Premier of Ontario has said, certainly that province would welcome it, and there would probably be buy-in from provinces, depending on what a federal government was putting on the table.