"'We figure we'll reasonably create about 25,000 spaces a year,' Harper said then."
"A year later, no spaces have been created and the plan for more spaces hasn't been completed yet."
First of all by what metrics is the CBC claiming that no new day care spaces have been created? Parents have been getting their $1,200 cheques since July, so logic would seem to conclude that at least some of them would spend it on Child care.
The question is how many more children have been enrolled in child care across the country? It could very well be that over 25,000 more children have been enrolled in child care all across the country. I find it highly improbable that not a single extra child was enrolled into day care in this country since July.
All the CBC produces here is talk about how long waiting times are for access to childcare. Just what are they counting as "day care spaces?" Government run day care spaces? What about private day care?
"'We launched our business four years ago. And in the last four years, we've had over 300 companies that have signed up to be clients,' said Sopic, who was appointed to sit on a committee to advise the Harper government on how to implement its plan."
So private day care is growing, but somehow day care spaces aren't being created? Just what counts as a day care space anyways?
Agreements the previous Liberal government signed with the provinces providing money for the creation of regulated child-care spaces will be phased out by March, 2007.
ReplyDeleteAFTER THAT TIME the Conservatives will enact their own plan, which involves setting aside $250-million annually to create spaces.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060502.wchildbudget0502/BNStory/budget2006/home
Liberal Day Care Spaces are registered, regulated, inspected must make application for funding and be approved..in short they must produce bureaucracy spin off... like the Gun Registry ! Yeah. That works. Private day care spaces like the one across the street from me, are housewives with children who for a small stipend add a few more children, and in their fenced backyard on their swings and chute-see-chutes or in the sandbox, and in their kitchen and dining room, provide a homelife for the kids left in their care. There's no guv'ment in there folks. Just referrals from satisfied Moms. Thats Conservative !
ReplyDeleteThe mom across the street from me, complete with swing and fenced backyward also had a 14 year old son who was sexually abusing the preschoolers when mom was out of sight. I'd rather not gamble with the well being of my children and now insist on a regulated space where all the checks and monitors are in place. My kids deserve at least the same level of quality service assurance that I get from my licensed mechanic, my licensed hairdresser, and my favorite restaurant which is licensed, health and fire inspected, and properly insured. Unlike most neighborhood babysitters.
ReplyDelete"The mom across the street from me, complete with swing and fenced backyward also had a 14 year old son who was sexually abusing the preschoolers when mom was out of sight. I'd rather not gamble with the well being of my children and now insist on a regulated space where all the checks and monitors are in place."
ReplyDeleteI just have to respond to that comment.
Not all stay at home parents are negligent sexual abuse enabling morons. Some no doubt are. But to make a sweeping judgment like that is problematic at best in my opinion.
I don't think we should make public policy decisions based on the "all humans are stupid" philosophy.
We should always start by assuming that people are just as able and equal in dignity as we are when we make public policy decisions.
Doing anything else, smacks of collectivism, and can seriously lead us down the wrong path in my opinion anyway.