CODE BLUE FOR child care: WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST TO LOSE FUNDING

From: Our Times | Date: February 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

TORY BLUE. CODE BLUE. BABY blues. There has been a blast of bitterly cold air on the child care front since the election of Stephen Harper's Conservative government in 2006. True to their campaign election promise, and deceptively couched in positive rhetoric, the Tories cancelled the previous government's $5 billion federal-provincial agreements, which the provinces could have used to create an estimated 250,000 child care spaces, turning back the clock and invalidating years of lobbying on the part of child care activists across the country. And now we're living with the results. Baby ...

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