Mr. Chair, I have questions and issues with this concept of universal daycare and daycare in every community and subsidizing daycares because the government is now going in competition with daycares and junior kindergarten. The economics of all of this just sounds a little bit sketchy to me. Mr. Chair is giving me a questioning look. If we are going to take away the four-year-olds, is that going to make all of the private daycares unviable so now we have to financially support businesses that are in the daycare business because the government is… We’re going to pay twice. Let’s put it that way. We are going to pay for junior kindergarten and then we’re going to pay because the zero to three age category needs some kind of subsidy because the staff child ratio is higher with the younger children. I know that. I actually built a daycare once. I ran a daycare once. I know about those ratios and I know about those economies. The more children you have, the more staff you need. It is not really a good money-making proposition at the best of times.

I’m not really sure about this. I mean, daycare in small communities, could I say that if you’re saying that there’s not much employment in those communities, like, who’s going to bring the kids to daycare? I guess some people maybe would. I don’t know. If there are people who do stay home and don’t work outside the home, isn’t it a great economic opportunity for those people to take a couple of children in if there are a few people working, if there are mothers working in the community, and if there’s a place like Norman Wells where they said there are so many people working that they need daycare, well, that seems like a really good business opportunity for somebody to open a daycare if they don’t already have one, and I don’t know what the impediment would be. Pardon?

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