If Canadians are offered:
1. Monthly income tested cash benefits to offset childcare costs.
vs
2. A promise that government will somehow make childcare cost $10/day while eliminating all private childcare providers.
7 out of 10 Canadians will take
#1
, 19 times out of 20.
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@KenBoessenkool
Could we include an option for the families that are struggling to pay upfront ?
Just putting this out there.
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@carolyndunncbc
The former has been promised in every election since 2006 (CPC and Liberal) and delivered right into peopleβs bank accounts.
The latter has been promised in every election since 1993 and never delivered.
Cash in hand vs pipe dream is how voters perceive these promises.
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@tammyschirle
I was mostly reacting to the third last paragraph in this Globe piece, which I probably should have linked to but ran out of characters.
Many people propose getting ride of private providers. It would be a big, big mistake.
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@KenBoessenkool
I read The Economist magazine. (Hardly leftist.) Their writing about affordable daycare leans to
#2
(using less biased rhetoric). Other than CPC/UCP supporters, I haven't seen anything about eliminating private daycare .
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@KenBoessenkool
The $10 promise will take 2 or 3 years to get up and running. Option 1 can happen tomorrow if necessary.
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@KenBoessenkool
Parents want choice. Need choice. Ottawa parents may prefer 9-5 facility daycare, shift workers need flexible, next door family daycare. Ugly truth is $10 daycare is also available to those who want to give nanny a break.
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@KenBoessenkool
And yet option 2 would allow many more families to have children and raise them while living in Canada. And so would make Canada a better country to live in. Kind of like health care and public education has already.
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@KenBoessenkool
That just seems to indicate that the education system failed 7 out of 10 Canadians. Maybe there's something to be said about revisiting the principle of equalization if this is the base level of education we're seeing around the country.
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@KenBoessenkool
That's what they said about homes for seniors too and look how that turned out ie covid outbreaks mad other failures
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