Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the Member mentioned, this is not new ground. Over the years, there's been a number of -- much work done on the types of programs and research into the needs of young children and how we can better support them and how we can better support parents with their child care needs. And so this work has been done by the Department of Health, by E, C and E, and the officials at the department have looked at all of this work spanning many years, and as well, they have gone out to have discussions with child care providers, Indigenous governments, and so on. And all of that is informing both the negotiations that we are currently in with the federal government as well as the 2030 Early Learning and Childhood Strategy. That strategy will be a very high-level document without specific actions. That's generally what strategies are; they're guiding documents. But as with many federal funding agreements, there's already a requirement for an action plan. So the -- I expect there will be a detailed action plan under the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement that will spell out exactly how we are going to spend this money and make these improvements to the child care sector. So I can assure the Member we will have a plan. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
R.J. Simpson on Oral Question 834-19(2): Canada-Northwest Territories Childcare Agreement
In the Legislative Assembly on November 30th, 2021. See this statement in context.
Oral Question 834-19(2): Canada-Northwest Territories Childcare Agreement
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November 30th, 2021
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