The top priority in the April 2021 federal budget was more institutional child care and coercing all mothers into full time jobs. On top of additional massive funding, $30 billion more over 6 years was offered including a much expanded federal daycare bureaucracy.
READ the budget background document that cites as evidence the non-peer reviewed publications by long-time daycare lobbyists such as (the late) Dr Fraser Mustard and Margaret McCain of frozen food fame. The document’s claims of economic benefit from putting little children and babies in institutional care is an ideological- and greed-based fiction contradicted by the peer-reviewed evidence. Note the goal is to get mothers into jobs and away from their children: misogynistic coercion in the name of “gender equity.”
Budget 2021: A Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Plan
For reference copy, please see below:
May 8, 2021. Department of Finance Canada – (news release): Budget 2021: A Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Plan
MEDIA COMMENTARY OPPOSING FEDERAL DAYCARE SCHEME
The media, especially the CBC, has almost entirely given up any effort at balanced or accurate coverage of the daycare issue. The disinformation mono-narrative is that daycare is very popular with parents, there’s a terrible shortage of spaces – a crisis, it’s good for children and women and the economy, etc. None of which is true.
A few opinion pieces did get through to counter this.
- April 20, 2021.Danielle Kube. National Post – (op-ed): “Universal daycare bad for women, children and the economy: If we’re going to spend billions to support women’s preferences should we not let her decide those preferences for herself?“
See reference copy here (PDF)
- April 27, 2021. William Watson. Financial Post – (op-ed): “Is cheap daycare really a good idea? What’s good for GDP is not necessarily good for well-being“
See reference copy here (PDF)
- -April 30, 2021. Andrew Coyne. Globe and Mail – (op-ed): “Is Quebec’s daycare program really the model to be followed by the rest of Canada?“
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