Translation of "Techniques d'éducation en service de garde " (French → English) :

A total of EUR 17.8 billion is available in 2007-2013 for social infrastructures from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), supporting housing and investments in education, health, and childcare.

It produced some of the most remarkable and innovative documents in terms of understanding where we are as a nation in terms of education, particularly post-secondary, but also looking at aboriginal education, early learning and child care, and a number of things.

Madam Speaker, to address the first comment about child care, just the other day one of the member's Liberal colleagues made a comment that women of Canada want to hear about early learning and child care in order to go back to school and then to get a real job and to be able to go to work.

The committee has called for the federal government to champion the cause of early childhood education and care with the following recommendations: for the Prime Minister to appoint a minister of state for children and youth under Human Resources and Social Development Canada, with the responsibility of working with provincial and territorial governments to advance quality early learning, parenting programs and chide care; the creation of a national advisory council on children comprised of parliamentarians, communities leaders, parents and representatives of other relevant organizations to advi ...[+++]se the minister of state and, through the minister of state, other ministers on how best to support parents and advance quality early learning and child care; for the Government of Canada to call a series of meetings of federal, provincial and territorial ministers with responsibility for children and youth, beginning within one year to establish a pan-Canadian framework to provide policies and programs to support children and their families and a federal-provincial-territorial council of ministers responsible for early learning and child care parenting support programs to meet annually to review Canada's progress with respect to the other OECD countries and to share best practices; for the Government of Canada, in collaboration with provincial and territorial counterparts and researchers, to create an adequately funded, robust system of data collection, evaluation and research, promoting all aspects of quality human development, including the development of curricula, program evaluation and child outcome measures.

We have put more money into child care than any other government, $5.6 billion in early learning and child care.

Briefly in terms of for profit and not for profit, as the hon. member knows, in every province and territory in this country early learning and child care is currently being delivered by both systems, not for profit and for profit.