Today's Globe and Mail has a front page story, "Why more moms do the daycare shuffle" which describes the increasing tendency for mothers to return to full-time work. These women should be commended for their insistence on participating fully in the employment market, and they should be accommodated with better access to quality child care.
The Liberal Party understood these needs, and had worked hard (particularly Ken Dryden) to develop child care options across Canada.
Unfortunately, the Conservative government doesn't value the right of women to be productive members of society with a life outside their home. They scrapped the provincial agreements which would have increased the options and affordability of child care sought by the women interviewed in the article.
According to the Globe and Mail, 68.5% of mothers with children under 16 work between 30-40 hours a week. We need to work hard to ensure that these women don't have to choose between their children and their careers, and the Liberal child care agreements would have gone a long way towards supporting working mothers.
Stephen Harper's government doesn't respect women and it is time for Canada to elect a Liberal government that will!
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Why on earth should everybody be made to pay for state funded unionized day-cares when families choose to work instead of staying home and raising their children themselves?
The conservative approach puts value on families that stay home to raise their kids by funding the child instead of the institutions.
One need to look at the fiasco of directly funding day-care institutions in Quebec where unionized institutional day-care has run amok costing the Quebec government billions more than what they first thought.
As their birth rates decline day-care cost go up because they still have to fund all those empty day-care spots where unionized workers get paid huge salaries.
By funding the child instead of the institution families have a choice as it's alway better if mothers and fathers raise their children themselves rather than foisting that responsability upon a stranger in an institutional setting run by labor unions.
So you're saying that there are a material amount of women who can't afford to go to work.
I don't know any
No, no, what he's saying is it is a "right", another one that wasn't in the constitution but a right, nonetheless, and we must MUST pay to allow women their right to "choose". Of course in this case the right means we have to pay for their daycare. Yup, that's the Liberal way.
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