“In partnership with parents, full-day learning will provide Ontario children with high quality programs that help lay the foundation for a healthy and productive life. I have submitted my report, With Our Best Future in Mind to the Premier on how to implement full day learning for 4- and 5-year-olds.

I encourage you to read the report and the accompanying brochure which provides a summary of my recommendations. In addition you may be interested in reviewing the working assumptions that guided my thinking throughout the development of the report.

I also invite you to download and read two companion reports, one that provides the vast evidence and best practice that informed my recommendations and another, due shortly on this site, that offers a curriculum for the early years to guide early learning professionals in fostering the development of young children.

I am extremely grateful to the thousands of Ontarians who contributed their thoughts on early learning through emails, phone calls, meetings, and this website.

There is tremendous support for early learning in Ontario. Together, I am confident we can build ‘our best future’.”

Charles E. Pascal, June 15th, 2009