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Canada Mike's avatar

Looking forward to reading this later, but just wanted to say I really like this sort of long form journalism for a couple of reasons. One, It sort of reminds me of what I liked about the Saturday G&M so many years ago (pre Internet) where there would be a big focus/feature section that would bridge the gap between far too weedy academic papers and a short "just the facts" article. And second, I want in my feed topics that I dont necessarily think about day to day that never the less I probably should have a passing bit of understanding of in order to better participate in society.

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Tara Houle's avatar

Why not give Canadian families the option in the form of a tax break rather than provide subsidized daycare centres? Madness.

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Zwer's avatar

The idea is that subsidized will more directly benefit lower income Canadians. If you don't make much money, the promise of a tax break doesn't do you much good. Not at all madness.

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Gregory Thomas's avatar

It is interesting that Quebec-style daycare over serves the affluent and well-connected while creating a backlog of demand amongst lower and middle income parents - for spaces that will never be provided while their children are young enough to use them. Classic socialism.

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