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-35The committees studying the Bill are…
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MEDIA RELEASE - for immediate release - 372 words Human rights complaint seeks equal funding to families for parent-directed learning Burnaby, BC - August 20, 2020 - Dhahan Law filed a complaint yesterday with the BC Human Rights Tribunal against…
Oct 1998: Transcript of presentation to Finance Committee Pre-Budgetary Consultations by Cathy Perri, President of Kids First; Cathy Buchanan, Treasurer of Kids First; and Bev Smith and Heather Gore-Hickman as individuals who are also members of Kids First
April 1998: Presentation to Finance Committee by Maria Conti, Ontario Rep for Kids First
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The Senate Standing Committee on Science, Social Affairs and Technology has heard from the daycare lobby at length but not from parents representing parents. Kids First requested to present to the Committee in June 2007 and received no response. We…
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The Liberals have done a complete reversal of their position on children's care. In 1999, the Liberal government issued a report with a set of principles to guide child and family policy that makes the Conservative party $1,200 plan look…
June 28, 2012. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - letter (PDF): "Kids First Letter to Ontario Minister of Education"
Complaint about HELP’s violation of informed consent and privacy to UBC Behavioural Research Ethics Board—Jan 2011. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - official complaint: (download PDF here)Feb 15 2011 reply from UBC’s Behavioural Research Ethics Board to complaint regarding…
April 2011. Helen Ward. Kids First Parents Association of Canada - "Response to the draft document 'Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants: Recommendations from Birth to Six Months'".
The Liberals have done a complete reversal of their position on children's care. In 1999, the Liberal government issued a report with a set of principles to guide child and family policy that makes the Conservative party $1,200 plan look…
Feb 1, 2011 interview on Roadkill radio on violation of privacy and parental consent, UBC’s HELP, the EDI and data linkage
HELP Violates Privacy Protection Practices it Claims to Follow: HELP claims to follow Statistics Canada’s procedures, but unlike HELP, Statistics Canada requires verbal or written parental consent for surveys of parents, children, and children’s teachers. See PDF below of Jan…
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Oct 2010. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - government submission (PDF): Input to Consultation on the White Paper on the BC Family Relations Act
March 22, 2010. Kate Tennier. Winterhill - gov. sub. (PDF): "Submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy; Re: Bill 242" March 29, 2010. Jonas Himmelstrand. The Mireja Institute – government submission: Jonas Himmelstrand Submission re Bill 242 (PDF). (see…
