Hon. Senators: Hear, hear.

Hon. Senators: Hear, hear!

The Hon. the Speaker: I hear a “no.”

Senator Cardozo: Thank you, Madam Speaker. I just want to take a few minutes in much the same vein as Senator Lankin. There are a few people I would like to pay homage to today. This has been a process that has been going on for — my math is not very good, but 55 or 60 years. I want to start by mentioning the late Honourable Monique Bégin, who passed away just a few weeks ago. She was the secretary of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, which was the first royal commission that recommended a national child care program. It’s taken us a long time to get there, but we are almost there.

I would also salute the Honourable Margaret McCain, former lieutenant governor of New Brunswick and head of the McCain Family Foundation. Some of the other individuals who appeared before us include people from the McCain Family Foundation, as well as Martha Friendly from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit and Morna Ballantyne, executive director of the child care organization called Child Care Now, and, of course, as Senator Lankin mentioned, Pauline Marois, who was the minister of education and brought in the first $5-a-day child care program in Canada that we have now followed throughout the country.

Kudos to all these women who have worked on this for a long time, and it’s really to their credit that we now have a national child care program. Thank you.

The Hon. the Speaker: I hear a no.

Some Hon. Senators: Hear, hear.

The Hon. the Speaker: I hear a “no.” Sorry.

Some Hon. Senators: Hear, hear!