Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I move that this committee urges the Government of the Northwest Territories to

1. Be innovative and identify options for increasing child day care spots at no or little cost including, but not limited to, changing the ratio of educators to children under two years of age by reducing the age of the infant category to children under 18 months of age. This would create additional spaces for children 18 months and older.
2. Completing negotiations with Housing Northwest Territories to allow licensed day care -- sorry, licensed child care to operate in public housing;.
3. Creating subgroups or sublicenses to allow child care centres, school-based child care, and child care offered in homes to offer licensed spaces;.
4. Create substitute lists or licensing to backfill so that if one educator gets sick, not all six kids must stay home;.
5. Create additional lists or licensing to enable before and after school day care , including evening care so that educators who have time can take additional hours.

Thank you, Madam Chair.