Canada’s Official Opposition NDP party has pledged to launch an affordable child daycare plan once it becomes the government. Criticizing both the ruling Conservatives and the opposition Liberal parties for empty promies, Official Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair announced the party’s goal was to limit costs to parents to $15 a day, the same amount they want as the minimum federal hourly wage.
Mulcair outlined the proposal Tuesday (October 14) at an Ottawa daycare centre.
Daycare is a provincial jurisdiction. Mulcair says he will respect provincial jurisdiction, while at the same time transferring federal funds to assure daycare for one million children. A former cabinet minister in the province of Quebec, Mulcair pointed to that province’s success with subsidized daycare as an example of what could be done.
RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda has a report.
ListenMore information:
NDP daycare press release – here
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