UBC economics professor, Dr Kevin Milligan is now a Special Advisor to the Prime Minister's Privy Council Office until the end of 2020 on the economic recovery from COVID.June 15, 2020 - blog post by UBC economist Kevin Milligan -…
Category: Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liveralism, defamilialization
Daycare Lobby Pushes For More Money Using COVID Recovery as Pretext to Fund Doomed Industry
Daycare has always caused serious infection risks for children and their families according to the peer reviewed research. Now COVID-19 causes fear in parents and staff, dramatically reducing attendance as well as labour supply. Governments have established 'safety' protocols for…
CD Howe Institute Intelligence Memos – “Thoughts on forestalling the coming childcare crisis”
June 24, 2020 - CD Howe Institute Intelligence Memos - by Ken Boessenkool organizer with Liberal and Conservative parties and Jennifer Robson Carlton University professor and policy advisor - "Thoughts on forestalling the coming childcare crisis"https://www.cdhowe.org/intelligence-memos/boessenkool-robson-%E2%80%93-thoughts-forestalling-coming-childcare-crisis Or see PDF here…
“National child-care strategy will be a lynch pin of economic recovery”, says Martha Friendly
June 19, 2020 - CBC radio The Sunday Edition - interview with a top daycare lobbyist - "National child-care strategy will be a lynch pin of economic recovery", says Martha Friendly: We don't know what the fall out will be…
UBC’s funding of HELP and daycare lobby: Clyde Hertzman over $212,000 from UBC alone (broken link)
UBC compensation = expenses to leading all-day Kindergarten and daycare promoters*Clyde Hertzman—Executive Director of HELP, also works for the World BankHERTZMAN CLYDE$212,497 + $15,163 expenses*Paul Kershaw—#2 at HELP, leading media promoter of all day Kindergarten until Aug 2010 when he…
Daycare Lobbyist Awards Human Rights Abuser (broken links)
Canada's YWCA, our country's largest daycare provider and a top lobbyist for more public money for daycare centres, awarded Goldcorp mining company its "Woman of Distinction Award" for "Outstanding Workplace" for its women- and "family-friendly" polices, despite that company's tragic…
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Daycare Pays Well for Some: 2017 Remuneration of Leading Daycare Lobbyists
Paul Kershaw - head of GenSqueeze lobby group funded by UBC's H.E.L.P.$154,111 ($149,550 + $4,561 in expenses) March 31, 2017. UBC - Financial Statement: Download PDF here. (Press Ctrl F and type in last name to find line item)UBC daycare…
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Daycare Wait Lists Are Meaningless
Aug 2016: CBC radio interview - Vanier Institute for the Family CEO, Nora Spinks, confirms that daycare wait lists are meaningless, though the daycare lobby has used them for years to claim there is a shortage of daycare spaces, yet…
Defamililialization: Essay by Helen Ward
Nov 2015: "Ever Heard of Defamilialization? What it is, Who Created it, How It Affects Our lives". This research essay by Kids First President, Helen Ward, exposes defamilialism, the ideology that has led to a massive global policy shift, driven…
Quebec Daycare System Results: Negative Social Behaviour, Increased Youth Crime
Sept 2015 working academic research paper by economists Milligan, Baker, Gruber showing long term negative impact of Quebec daycare system: "Non-Cognitive Deficits and Young Adult Outcomes: The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program" September 23, 2015 Maclean's Magazine…
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