Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This question came up during the election here in Yellowknife. I think the Status of Women posed this in a questionnaire to all the Yellowknife candidates and they pointed out that early childhood programs really benefited families and couples that wanted to improve their education and so on. In that response I indicated my support for that and I would want to see it continue.

I think we need to also involve the federal government. The federal government in the past has funded daycare programs. I was struck when I went to Ulukhaktok to open their arts centre there, how a small community like Ulukhaktok has a daycare centre for the community, and I want to see how they were able to make it happen in a small community like that and perhaps learn from that and see how we can do it in other communities.