Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are also addressed to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. I want to follow up on my Member’s statement about college daycares and the need for our students to have some place to put their children while they go to school.
There certainly is a lack of affordable daycare for students. As I mentioned, it keeps them in a financial hole and I think it keeps many of them in poverty. It’s not where our students should be if we expect them or want them to gain learning and to gain accreditation and get good jobs.
I’d like to start off by asking the Minister, I mentioned the child care subsidy in my statement and I’d like to ask him if he could provide the House with data on the use of the Childcare Subsidy Program. Was it fully subscribed in the last fiscal year? It is my understanding that it was not. Thank you.