Bill C-35 is the daycare lobby’s latest effort to entrench billion$ more for a coercive, unpopular, discriminatory system of low-quality, government-regulated, non-parental child care and more funding for daycare lobbyists.
KIDS FIRST WORK ON BILL C-35
The committees studying the Bill are not hearing the voices of the majority of parents and especially mothers, and children who are harmed by the discriminatory Bill, nor from the authors of peer-reviewed research on the negative impacts of daycare and the Quebec daycare system on children, the economy, and society. They are not even hearing the Statistics Canada data that shows low enrollment and high vacancy rates in licensed daycare.
Why the unfair, discriminatory bias in the witness selection process?
TIME LINE
*On March 7, 2023, Kids First emailed to applied to be a witness at the House of Commons committee studying the Bill but did not even receive a reply from the Committee Clerk and was not permitted to present though the committee heard from dozens of daycare lobbyists.
*On March 17, 2023, Kids First submitted a brief to the House of Commons committee.
*From March to June 2023, Kids First contacted members of the committee studying the Bill and was invited to speak with MPs Michelle Ferreri and Karen Vecchio.
*On June 19, 2023, the Bill was voted on and shockingly passed with 0 (zero) opposed votes.
*On August 8, 2023, Kids First requested information about which Senate committee would be studying the Bill.
*On October 17, 2023, over 2 months after the emailed request, a reply was received that gave the name of the committee.
*On Oct 17, 2023, the same day we received the information needed to apply to be a witness, Kids First applied to be a witness at the Senate committee.
*On October 17, 2023 the Senate committee clerk replied to inform us the Kids First had been “identified as a potential witness” but had not been scheduled to appear, and that all the schedule was full.
*On October 27, 2023, Kids First submitted a brief to the senate committee.
KIDS FIRST BRIEFS ON BILL C-35
2023 March – submission to government – Kids First – “Brief Regarding Bill C-35 – An Act respecting early learning and child care in Canada – submitted to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities”
2023 October – submission to government – Kids First – “Brief Regarding Bill C-35 – An Act respecting early learning and child care in Canada – submitted to the Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology”