Mr. Speaker, I concur with Mrs. Groenewegen and Mr. Menicoche to this amendment to the amendment. We do have qualified teachers, they are called mothers, grandmothers. They may not have their qualifications as an institution, but they are special people in our communities.

These are four-year-olds. Think back on your child or grandchild as a four-year-old. This is about teaching some social development skills, language, play, respect and values. So these are small children that some of the qualified people that are not recognized in our education system may be recognized in our communities in how to look after little ones, get them ready, so they are special people in our communities. I believe that this is going to shut the door on them and restrict them in saying that we can only have qualified early childhood educators. They are already qualified. If they are qualified to have a little one, they certainly know how to raise them, so we have got to be very careful and keep the door open for our small communities with the Aboriginal teaching of our parents and our grandparents. They may not fit the “academic” type of qualifications but they fit many other different qualifications. We have got to remember that. We have got to honour the culture and the traditions of these communities that we represent.

These are two different views and I think that this view here will say that in the small communities we have to have qualified people in there, so it’s very tricky. This is embarking on a new type of educating and looking after our little ones, so I would have to not support this motion.