Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, Minister. The money that was allocated for COVID relief was under different categories. Again, as the Minister described, we had to act very fast. We had to try to support our licensed centres in particular and family day homes that were willing to reopen as quickly as possible, so under the categories, it's categories like cleaning supplies and PPE. Also, we wanted to ensure that the staff grant was available, including family day homes for a period of time, as an incentive to stay open.
As well, because our early childhood programs have an attendance basis to the funding, we wanted to make sure that they were getting consistent funding regardless of their attendance in order, again, to be able to reopen quickly and/or stay open, depending on the number of children in the centre. All of those were very targeted, very specific, to make sure that licensed centres felt that they could safely open, that they had what they needed in accordance with the Office of the Chief Public Health Officer, and that we could respond to families that needed their services. Thank you, Madam Chair.