Morna Ballantyne is the Executive Director of Child Care Now, Canada’s national child care advocacy organization. Now a grandmother, she began advocating forty years ago for more high quality, affordable, inclusive, affordable licensed child care. She works with others to press governments to build a publicly managed and publicly funded Canada-wide system of early learning and child care. Morna serves on the Government of Canada’s Task Force on Women in the Economy, and was a member of the federal Expert Panel on Early Learning and Child Care Data and Research until it completed its mandate.