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Mulcair

Class warfare in the sandbox?

Posted by Martha Friendly · October 20, 2014 5:26 AM

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No doubt about it — the federal NDP has moved childcare front and centre. 

Reaction to the party’s childcare proposal elicited a wide range of responses. The Twittersphere and traditional media exploded after Tom Mulcair’s press conference last week as fans and foes of a universal, affordable, national childcare system debated whether such a system is needed or wanted — and whose responsibility childcare is anyway? 

Perhaps most interesting was the backlash the proposal elicited with respect to the unfairness of allowing wealthier families to participate.

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The case for child care

Posted by Andrew Jackson · October 15, 2014 4:03 AM

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Leader of the Opposition Thomas Mulcair has launched a new round of debate over the need for a national child care and early learning program. The NDP poposal would help the provinces to finance quality, affordable child care systems, delivered by regulated providers in place of the current patchwork quilt of formal and informal care of varying price and quality.

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